Can someone tell me if there’s a reason that Thunderbird and Firefox react to one another in Windows differently than they do in Linux? When I was using Linux, I got in the habit of clicking links in e-mails without thinking twice, because they opened in a new window. Now that I’ve switched back to Windows for the most part (for reasons that, honestly, I don’t quite recall), I still have that habit of clicking in Thunderbird links, only to discover that Firefox has used one of my already-open browser windows (containing something I’m reading, or worse, writing for this blog) to visit the link. It’s more than a bit frustrating, I have to say.

I spent the last couple of hours working on a point-by-point response to Newt Gingrich’s The American Eleven – A Values Led Plan for Victory in November, but I lost it because an incoming e-mail from Scopes caught my attention and I made the mistake of clicking on the link without making sure I had a new browser window open to catch it.

I may rewrite that post later, but it’s pretty much unnecessary, since I (mostly) agree with all of Newt’s points.

( þ Jeff the Baptist )