tabs - Archive of obsolete content
the new tab will open in the active window or in a new window, depending on the innewwindow option.
...tabs.open({ url: "http://www.mysite.com", innewwindow: true }); // open a new tab on active window in the background.
... innewwindow boolean if present and true, a new browser window will be opened and the url will be opened in the first tab in that window.

nsIXULWindow
void assumechromeflagsarefrozen(); void center(in nsixulwindow arelative, in boolean ascreen, in boolean aalert); nsixulwindow createnewwindow(in print32 achromeflags, in nsiappshell aappshell); nsidocshelltreeitem getcontentshellbyid(in wstring id); void removechildwindow(in nsixulwindow achild); void showmodal(); attributes attribute type description chromeflags pruint32 chromeflags are from nsiwebbrowserchrome.
... createnewwindow() create a new window.
... nsixulwindow createnewwindow( in print32 achromeflags, in nsiappshell aappshell ); parameters achromeflags see nsiwebbrowserchrome.

Windows - Archive of obsolete content
example window.open(); //this open a pop-up window that could be "blocked" client-side //the following code generate an error as describe in the following warning box var wm = components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiwindowmediator); var newwindow = wm.getmostrecentwindow("navigator:browser"); var b = newwindow.gbrowser; the code generate a typeerror from firefox console.

List of commands - Archive of obsolete content
rowser:open browser:openfile browser:print browser:printpreview browser:savepage browser:searchinternet browser:sendpage browser:uploadfile cmd_bm_copy cmd_bm_cut cmd_bm_delete cmd_bm_expandfolder cmd_bm_export cmd_bm_find cmd_bm_import cmd_bm_managefolder cmd_bm_movebookmark cmd_bm_newbookmark cmd_bm_newfolder cmd_bm_newseparator cmd_bm_open cmd_bm_openinnewtab cmd_bm_openinnewwindow cmd_bm_paste cmd_bm_properties cmd_bm_rename cmd_bm_selectall cmd_bm_setnewbookmarkfolder cmd_bm_setnewsearchfolder cmd_bm_setpersonaltoolbarfolder cmd_bm_sortfolder cmd_bm_sortfolderbyname cmd_close cmd_closeothertabs cmd_closewindow cmd_copy cmd_copyimage cmd_copylink cmd_cut cmd_delete cmd_editpage cmd_findtypelinks cmd_findtypetext cmd_gotoline cmd_handlebackspace cmd_h...

XUL Overlays
the following snippet shows a dialog with custom ui elements at the top and a reference to the overlay's ok and cancel buttons at the bottom: <box align="horizontal" id="bx1" flex="100%" style="margin-bottom: 1em; width: 100%;"> <html:input type="checkbox" id="dialog.newwindow"/> <html:label for="dialog.newwindow">&openwin.label;</html:label> <spring flex="100%"/> </box> <box id="okcancelbuttons"/> for more detail, see the ok and cancel button definitions being referenced here in the global component file platformdialogoverlay.xul.

Window.openDialog() - Web APIs
syntax newwindow = opendialog(url, name, features, arg1, arg2, ...) newwindow the opened window url the url to be loaded in the newly opened window.