Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 09/09/07 07:09

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed marckatsambis@gmail.com writing
in news:1188973711.175101.108210@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

>> Look at the choices you have in your FF preferences for "opening
>> new pages". I will leave you to others to be drawn and quartered
>> for not knowing about the evils of _blank
>>
>> --
>> dorayme
>
> Weird! My Firefox preferences seem to match those of my colleagues FF
> preferences, but her browser displays the link within a new window as
> it is meant to.
>
> What is the particular setting I should be looking for? And why is
> _blank evil? What should I use instead?
>

One of the problems with _blank is it opens a new window each time, so
if you have 2 _blanks, you have two windows. If you browser gets
hijacked, and lots of porn opens up, it's the use of _blank.

Alternatively, once you name a window, you can reuse it again. So if
you have a window called help, anything with target="help" will open in
the "help" window, already defined. Of course, you also have to be
careful with this, as you might not want to overwrite that "help"
window.

Personally, I prefer a small pop-up window, or even better, a little CSS
box with the "help" in it.

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