each time I save a file with firefox and click on ‘display progress of ongoing downloads’ on the top right part of the browser and click to open the containing directory, debian opens the directory, but in a new tunar window, not in a new tab in a pre existing thunar window.
It’s tiring working with so many open windows. Better one window and several tabs.
This could be a Thunar setting or a xfwm4 setting in addition to being a FF setting.
Yes
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/preferences#behavior_preferences
Tabs and Windows
Open new thunar instances as tabs
Whenever you launch thunar while an existing thunar window is already open, a new tab will be added to the existing thunar window instead of opening a new window.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=244076
Alternately:
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=16993
xfconf-query -c thunar -p /misc-open-new-window-as-tab -s true && thunar ~/Downloads
This is about Firefox not debian
Search on how to do this in Firefox, maybe in the about:config
Also note that Debian ships Firefox ESR which lacks behind on features, you might want to add mozillas official repo for the up to date browser
Firefox won’t be able to do this without Thunar supporting it, but someone else already posted that Thunar does support it.
Yeah sorry this is about the used filemanager.
In KDE I have set Konsole, Dolphin and Okular to always only open tabs. Really nice, not always self explanatory
These are a ton of likes for a totally wrong comment XD
