This forum does not do well with code... How about I change %20 back to a space for posting purposes:

javascript:var array=document.URL.match(/amazon\.(.*?)\/.*?\/.*?\/(.{10})/);if(array==null){alert('This bookmarket works on Amazon.com Kindle book pages, and redirects you to the same book\'s page on Lendle. Please visit a Kindle book page on Amazon.com and then click this bookmarklet.');}else{var x=window.open('http://www.lendle.me/books/detail/'+array[2]);x.focus();}

What I think is missing here is the target attribute in the window.open() function call (last line):

javascript:var array=document.URL.match(/amazon\.(.*?)\/.*?\/.*?\/(.{10})/);if(array==null){alert('This bookmarket works on Amazon.com Kindle book pages, and redirects you to the same book\'s page on Lendle. Please visit a Kindle book page on Amazon.com and then click this bookmarklet.');}else{var x=window.open('http://www.lendle.me/books/detail/'+array[2], "_blank");x.focus();}

As for the browser.link.open_newwindow.* preferences, you probably do not need to modify them from their default values. In particular, the one for external links is for completely separate programs like Adobe Reader and Microsoft Word. The poster in that other thread was launching a link from outside Firefox.

thankyou jscher2000. tried that but it did not work for me

I updated the properties in the bookmarklet (bookmark, properties)

to include

x=window.open('http://www.lendle.me/books/detail/'+array[2], "_blank");x.focus();} (there is a space after, and before "_blank")

but firefox keeps changing it to insert %20 rather than the space

x=window.open('http://www.lendle.me/books/detail/'+array[2],%20"_blank");x.focus();}

That is OK. A space and some other characters are escaped when you save them as a bookmarklet. The code is unescaped automatically if you run the code.

What is the value of these two prefs?

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.link.open_newwindow
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction

browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external doesn't apply here as this is meant for links that you click in an external program like an email to open in the default browser.

thankyou cor-el

   http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.link.open_newwindow

1

   http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction 

0

Those setting mean that you are redirecting all window.open() calls to the current tab.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.link.open_newwindow
• 1: current tab; 2:new window; 3:new tab;

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction
• 0:divert always; 1:divert never; 2:divert only if not specifying dimensions

You need to set browser.link.open_newwindow to 3 to open links in a new tab.

Configuration setting changed to 3, new tab.

Fx is not working all the time. Fx worked the first time (opened lendle in a new tab when I clicked on the lendle bookmarkelet) then no time after that, has it worked (e.g opening in same tab).

I do not understand why so trying to see if I can get it to work again.

Does it work better in a new window if you set browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 1 or 2?

hi cor-el

Kept config setting at 3

It was me i think, I took jscher2000 new bit out of the bookmarklet (e.g. before "_blank") as I was thinking it did not need it before and worked, so why does it need it now...

if I popped that back in and keeping the config setting to 3, then it is working.

Thankyou for all your help. It is wonderful!