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Force 'new window' links to open in new tabs in Safari
Authored by: marook on Wed, Mar 26 2008 at 5:32PM PDT

Ahh, as this is in the GUI, it's not really hidden. It's been a GUI pref since they introduced Tabs.

Prefs: General:
Open links from other applications: in a new Tab in the current window.

That pref has worked for me always, as it seems to apply this to '_blank' links as well.

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/Marook

Force 'new window' links to open in new tabs in Safari
Authored by: zpjet on Thu, Mar 27 2008 at 6:21AM PDT

no it doesn't. _blank windows open in a new one.