Use the modifier/ctrl-click behaviour to make the 'open in new tab' functionality open in the current tab instead.Add a second menuitem to open the image in the same tab.OK, after a conversation with a number of engineering, product and UX folks, we considered a few options: I'll check in with UX in case they have good suggestions on what to do here, but I suspect this is just something we'll have to accept as a consequence of the changes here. The context menu's behaviour is now also more compatible with other browsers, and AFAIK they don't have a way to open the image in the same tab, either. As comment #0 implies, inverting the middle-click behaviour will likely break more people's workflow than it fixes, and it's not clear to me why opening in the same tab is beneficial, and/or that it's worth trying to come up with a way of making opening the image in the same tab easier than 'open image in a new tab, close other tab'. I don't think there's a clear way forward here. I don't understand, bug 1690030 only landed in 88 less than a week ago (2 weeks after 87 branched) and wasn't uplifted, so it's not possible that you reproduced this in 87. Setting flags and assigning it a Severity of S4. Reproduced on the latest versions of Firefox Nightly 88.0a1 () and beta 87.0. (In reply to Andrei Purice from comment #1) Personally, I have been using the middle mouse on the 'View image' button to open an image in a new tab for so long that I'd prefer not having to retrain my muscle memory. I would prefer a new about:config preference that switches the default behaviour for the 'View image' button in the context menu. In his comment at, Neil suggested re-utilizing the common CTRL+click/middle mouse shortcut on the button to open the image in the same tab, but since those keys are almost universally regarded as a new window/new tab shortcut, I believe this would be somewhat unintuitive. There should be some way to still open an image in the same tab. There is no longer a way to open an image in the same tab. User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0 Win64 ењ†4 rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0ДЇollow-up to Bug 1690030, which made it so that the 'View image' button in the context menu when right-clicking on an image is replaced by a 'View image in new tab' button.

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