firefox bookmarks in new window or tab

Firefox has this great ability to drag and drop links to it’s bookmark toolbar. But if it is a regular link only it will open on the same window/tab that is in use.However there is a workaround there. Here is the steps I took:

1. Create an html from a wysiwyg editor. For superfast creation of links.
2. Instead of the usual <a href=”http://www.domain.com“>name to remember here</a> link tag use
   <a href=”javascript: void window.open(‘http://www.domain.com‘);”>name to remember here</a>
3. Open the created file into firefox and drag the links created to the toolbar.

This will open a new window from now on. Don’t forget the void keyword on the beginning of the function since forgetting this would result to the current window to be thrown whatever the window.open function return.

Here I have created a link to upload my pictures in imageshack and a link for new post for this blog.

***update#1
you could also drag any link to the bookmarks toolbar and  edit the link to accept a javacript function. :)

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