>>Al,
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>>>Thanks, Sergey. I'd rather avoid 3rd party extensions but I might look into it later.
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>>Then use the Control-Click method. No extensions needed.
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>Thanks, Jim - works great! I knew about Shift-Click (works also in IE to bring up new window), didn't realize FireFox had this feature.

It has one even simpler way to do the same (and it's become a habit during the last year or two... can't really remember when I switched to Mozilla - from Netscape - but it must have been around 0.8.9 or 0.9.0) - wheel click.