Question : Opening a new window in Firefox does not behave the same as in IE

I have two html files.  The first file contains a link that when clicked, opens a new window.  When I test the page in IE, the new window opens in a new browser window.  When I test the page in FireFox, a new tab is opened and displays the current page and a new window opens in a new browser window but it does not appear on top.  So there are two problems to fix:

1. How to prevent Firefox from opening the same window in a new tab of the current browser.
2. How to bring the new browser window that is opened to the top.

Any help would be greatly appreciated since I have to have this demo working by tomorrow and I'm baffled by this.

Another note:  I'm using the tag so I can create a clickable link of text but I'm using javascript to open the window so I can control what the window looks like.

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Answer : Opening a new window in Firefox does not behave the same as in IE

The new tab is because of the HTML target attribute. In your case, its because of this:
target="_blank"
which is affected by the user preference setting (New pages should be opened in: a new tab);

The new window is due to a javascript window.open:
window.open
which is not "tied" to the user preferences.