If you use other programmes (e.g. mail client or messenger) you can click on a link and it will open in Mozilla Firefox (if you have set it up to be the default browser). But there is one problem:

The default setting is that Firefox will open the link in the same window (i.e. it is not opening up a new window) I think this is quite annoying and you even risk data loss. Imagine you are writing something in a forum and then you click on a link in a mail. The forum page disappears and the new link is opened. Of course you can click the back button but on certain sites (like the Mozillazine forum) you lose everything you have written.

But you can change a preference so that links in other programs will be opened in a new window.

Write about:config in the address bar and click enter
make a filter for ddee
right click the advanced.system.supportDDEExec that appears
Change the value from true to false

Close the browser and notice the new behaviour of your browser. If you click on a link in another programme in will open a new window.

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