Firefox tip: getting rid of links that open new windows
Ever got frustrated by sites that use a <a target="_blank"... for the majority of the links on them? I can tell you I increasingly got annoyed with them over time… but not anymore! While writing a nl-NL locale for the excellent Firefox extension Tab Mix I noticed this really cool option that basically makes Firefox ignore the target attribute of any anchor and enables me to open a new tab or window for a link when I want it.
You might know that the target attribute has been dropped in XHTML 1.1. Despite what you may think of markup languages in general, I think most people would agree with me when I say that this was a very sensible thing to do… hm, sure, not being able to use targets would make it impossible to use frames, but which self-respecting site actually uses frames these days, hm ;) ?