It is a simple line of code and the entire site does this or add target=“_blank” to every hyperlink, and it will do the same thing. It sucks that you have to right-click every link to open in a new tab or window and it is such a simple fix.

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You can use middle click to open sites in a different tab

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Or Ctrl+Click to open in a new tab in the background, or Ctrl+Shift+Click to open in a new tab and switch to it. Regardless, I agree with OP that this should be the default.

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I’m aware of this and do this but its annoying when it could just open a new link away from Lemmy because so much of being on a lemmy instance for some reason involves me keeping Lemmy in one tab so I stay logged in… because if I leave… then I have to sign back in again.

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Laptops don’t have middle clicks.

Everyone knows the various workarounds. You don’t need to post them. This thread is about a problem that ought not to exist.

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Thats subjective. Different people have different opinions on how this should work. Making the default open in the current tab still allows you to have the alternate behaviour with ctrl+click or middle-click. The reverse does not.

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A simple checkbox in the settings allows users to choose which option they’d prefer.

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It’s overriding my browser preferences. That should not happen.

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I think that forcing links to create new tabs world be a problem. Links working the default, normal way is a feature, not a bug.

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Links opening in new tabs is the default normal way. Most sites don’t send you off their site by default, for obvious reasons. And most feeds won’t lose your place in the feed by default, for equally obvious reasons.

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Please tell me how to open a link with target=_blank in the same tab if I want to.

Or, maybe you think that the problem should not exist because you think your opinion is everyone’s?

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Everyone knows the various workarounds.

You have no idea what “everyone” knows. Many - and I’m certain most - don’t.

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My laptop has middle click on the touchpad

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Mine doesn’t but I’ve found an option to switch three-finger click to middle mouse button. Thanks.

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Ctrl + Click

But yeah, it’s odd.

The worst is fucking Jira. Why on Earth would I want to navigate away from my ticketing system EVER.

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4 points

Most laptops have gestures like triple finger tap on the mouse pad for simulated wheel click

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They do when you plug in a mouse.

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So now I need to buy a mouse and sit at a desk in order to use Lemmy?

C’mon. No other site behaves like this. It needs to be fixed.

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This thread is about a problem that ought not to exist.

Exactly

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