Dear websites,
If I wanted to open a link in a new tab, I would right click on it and do so. Please don’t set the page so every time I click on a link it opens a new window.
Thanks,
Simon
Ps. Is there a way to override this? Also, I noticed that sometimes when I click on links at Digg it opens the page in a new window and other times it doesn’t. What am I missing here?
It’s an HTML thing. When you set a link, you can change the target to a new window; this was mostly done back when people still used frames, because you you could make different windows show up in different frames, but I don’t see much of a reason for it now. Unless the original page creators wanted you to keep a window of their website open whilst you opened another one, meaning you’d have to come back to the original to either close it or hop elsewhere, but in any case have to spend at least a few more seconds looking at it.
Just a theory, anyway.
If you use firefox you can override this.
Go into tools -> Options, then the tab called “Tabs”.
There’s a setting there, “new pages should be opened in:”
Mine’s set to “a new tab”, and whenever I click on a target=”_blank” link, i get it in a new tab.
I’m not sure whether you can override it completely to make it appear on the tab you’re working on, but I doubt that you are the only one bothered with it, so there should be a plugin somewhere that does this.
Good luck
Well, I don’t have it set to the setting that opens it into a new tab — it’s something on the website’s end, not mine.
Those pesky porn sites, eh Simon? : )
Re: Fox
Hehe, I didn’t have any porn sites in mind when I posted this, but come to think of it, one porn link site called Gigagalleries forces you to open links in new tabs. You may be onto something.