Keep windows from opening

[Yosuke Arai]

I suspect Tim wants a "single window mode" - every link that are to be 
opened in a new window will be opened in a new tab. Correct?
If so, Tim Omernick mentioned earlier he might look into it in post-5.0 
release.
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?threadid=200105&perpage=50&pagenumber=12#post1964244

Yosuke Arai

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:43:41 +0200, Tim Pritlove wrote:
> 
> On 28.08.2004, at 15:42, Eugene Lee wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 11:25:38AM +0200, Tim Pritlove wrote:
>> :
>> : the single most annoying thing is automatically opening windows on the
>> : web. Is there a way to tell OmniWeb 5 to _never_ open a new window but
>> : to take the current one? Alternatively (or as an additional
>> : alternative) it would be great to put "new windows" in new tabs
>> : instead.
>> 
>> OmniWeb -> Preferences -> Tab & Window -> Open links from other
>> applications in...
> 
> That's not what I meant. This setting just defines what to do when an 
> application on my computer requests the browser to open an URL.
> 
> What I want to override is the target="new" things in web pages. I 
> never *ever* want a web site to open a window for me. It's my 
> computer and I cry if I want to ;)
> 
> Deciding to open a window or a tab is something I do with an 
> intention in mind. Does it belong to my current browsing context? 
> Then it goes into a tab. Does it open a new browsing context. Then I 
> want a new window.
> 
> But these ugly and useless multimedia web sites popping up with new 
> windows for absolutely no reason are just annoying and are getting in 
> my way.
> 
> I know that some web sites might no longer work as intended when I 
> block them from opening new windows. *I don't care*. I am not going 
> to use them.
> 
> I would love to see a power user option in OW like
> 
> [ ] Never ever open a new window if requested by a web page (this 
> might render some sites useless if selected)
> 
> Also, tooltips and access keys are missing. Hope it'll make it in 5.1
> 
> Greetings
> Tim
> ----
> Tim Pritlove, Discordian Evangelist, tim at ccc.de
> 
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