The comment about the search cycling through all the forums is bafling. You shouldn't be able to search all the forums at once as the indexes are kept seperately and there should be no menu option to search all forums just each individual forum seperately. I'd like to know more about that.
As for the seperate window idea, as mentioned control-n works in most browsers or right click and open page in new window works fine for 99.9% of browsers.
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Capt PPRuNe
aka Danny Fyne
The Professional Pilots RUmour NEtwork