Epiphany is selected in the drop-down dialog for Web Browser, and the "Open link in new tab" option is selected.
Other applications seem to honor these options, from what I can tell. -- HTML files open in Firefox, regardless of preferences https://launchpad.net/bugs/49054 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs