: Below is a screen shot, the browser is on my right monitor ...

Ah different idiom even there: I have the message index open as a non-framed
window (http://www.kayakforum.com/cgi-bin/Building/index.cgi/noframes/) and
then each message I want to read open in a new window, and, most especially,
my "Post Response" also open in another window, so I can copy and paste (by
highlight and middle-click, not ctrl/C and ctrl/V) from elsewhere...

Everyone has their own preferred way of working - and that is the point of
having choice in software platform (see, I detest Gnome, too:) A new idiom
may appear, on first encounter, to be something not working - someone used
to using a browser other than Firefox is constantly likely to click on a
link with the middle button and then stare blankly wondering where the new
window is ... I _still_ do that even after I've used Firefox (for sites
where Konquereor fails because the site is non-standards-compliant) for
years. It's very hard to switch between two idioms. That's why I have the
window close icon at top left (like RISC OS) and not top right (like
Windows), and that's the reason I hate Gnome - it won't let me move the
window close icon, so I constantly close windows I meant to maximise :-(

I'm not criticising Firefox's ability to use tabbed browsing, merely
pointing it out as a possible reason why the forum seems not to be working
and suggesting a way to disable it if changing idiom is difficult for
Scott.

Incidentally Scott, why is your wife trying to get you to switch away from
the browser you are used to ? And would it be easier if you switched to an
entirely new desktop (like Gnome or KDE rather than Windows) ? It's often
easier to switch to a new idiom if the environment doesn't look too similar
to the one you're used to ...

I deinstalled Windows from my wife's new computer (it came with Vista) and
installed Linux because Vista was so different from her previous Windows
2000 desktop that it was going to be a huge learning step whatever system
she used. As Linux is so much easier to install, configure and maintain,
it was easier for us both for her to use a KDE desktop. She's not
entirely used to it yet... but at least if she gets stuck I can help :-)

Andy