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Type: Feature



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[FR] Preference to open new page in TAB or NEW WINDOW

Reported by sweb...@guariscogallery.com, Sep 29 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Click on any link:  web;  email;  PDF;  txt/sms message;  etc...
2. 
3. 

What is the expected behavior?
A new WINDOW should open, and NOT a new TAB if preferred.

What went wrong?
Users are required to either Right-Click or Shift-Click or Command-N  or File=>New Window at all times in order to simply open a new window by default.  The very annoying, confusing, and disruptive and time-consuming 'New Tab' default is the ONLY option in Chrome, but is a simple preference in other browsers [see attached].

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 49.0.2623.112  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.8.5
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0

I am a technology integrator who started with Apple & the Macintosh back in 1986 because the UI was so vastly superior and intuitive.  Forced tabbed browsing is counter-intuitive to just about anybody who has used a browser since 1994 starting with Mosaic then to Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer,  Opera, Firefox, and every version of Safari.   The new Edge browser acts like Chrome, and it too gets the same complaints from frustrated users. 

Millions of users HATE tabs or find them confusing. [And millions love them.]  Please just let it be an option for users and do not force such behavior upon the user.

Thanks for listening.
 
Safari Tab Option.png
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Firefox Tab Option.png
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Components: UI>Settings UI>Browser
Labels: OS-Chrome OS-Linux OS-Windows
Components: -UI>Browser UI>Browser>NewTabPage
Labels: -OS-Linux -OS-Windows -OS-Chrome -OS-Mac OS-All
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 3 by fi...@chromium.org, Oct 6 2016

Components: -UI>Browser>NewTabPage
Cc: markchang@chromium.org
Components: -UI>Settings UI
Mark, can you help triage this?

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