I'm using a tool called Ice that creates special Firefox profiles for web apps (like Twitter or WhatsApp) to have them run in Firefox windows resembling Firefox' former site-specific browser feature.
Now when I click links in those web apps running in special Firefox profiles, they open as a new tab in the web app window (where the tabs are invisible) - so I would like to have all links open in my default browser (or the default profile of Firefox for that matter) instead.
There is an about:config option named browser.link.open_newwindow which supports the following values according to mozillaZine:
- 1: Open links, that would normally open in a new window, in the current tab/window.
- 2: Open links, that would normally open in a new window, in a new window.
- 3: Open links, that would normally open in a new window, in a new tab in the current window.
Ideally, there would be an option to open those links using the system's default (like using xdg-open on Linux), which would open the link using my default browser / Firefox' default profile.
Is there some config item that I'm missing - or an add-on for Firefox that does just that (letting the system handle opening the link)? Does anyone have another idea?
Edit:@harrymc linked me this question (thanks!): Open Link in different Profile in Firefox (they asked for pretty much the same thing, so my question is a duplicate). The answer was to use an extension named Open With - and it's almost what I need! Now I can right-click any page or link to open it with another browser (or profile) - but it doesn't automatically open all links with that – Problem not fully solved.
