When I click a Gdrive item in Firefox it always opens in the current tab. How do I get it to open in another tab. When I click on any other URL it opens in a new tab why not Google docs?
In Chrome when I click on a Google drive item (such as a Gdoc or Gsheet) it will open in a new tab by default.
This is really frustrating if I'm working in a folder that is many levels deep and I open a document I have to open Gdrive again in another tab and navigate all the way back to the folder I was in to get to another document.
It appears this was once an option Google docs, but it has now been removed…
[UPDATE] THIS IS NOT the SAME ISSUE AS OPENING IN A WINDOW VS. IN TAB
In my case it is opening IN THE SAME WINDOW.
[UPDATE 2] I have checked the option in firefox options as well as in about:config and open in new tab is selected. The behaviour works properly on other sites and apps, just not google docs and other apps. It seems that google do not display the buttons like opening a new document as a standard URL in html.
I can use firefox's center click to open in new tab in some cases, but not all and particularly not when opening a doc.
Best Answer
SOLUTION:
browser.link.open_newwindow0You may be able to just set the value to "3" instead of zero, but since I am not sure what other variables are changed by checking the box so this is the guaranteed approach at this point. You may also be able to skip option 6.
Somehow it is possible for the "Open links in tabs instead of new windows" option to be checked, but not changed in about:config properly.
I'm not sure how this happened, but checking and unchecking was not changing anything while it was set to "1". Here is a link for the exact value behaviour: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow