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.
Totally agree !
If you can, contribute to the code. You can do a pull request if you want.
I really don’t mind doing right-click-new-tab. What I don’t like is, when you click back it often doesn’t take you back to where you were before. So, totally agree with the request as it would leave you at your place.
Middle click (or command-click on Mac) will also open in a new tab in basically every browser.
Middle click works on a Mac too if you have a pointing device with one. My Logitech trackball does, but you have to push down the scroll wheel, so I never think about it.
I prefer the current behaviour.
It’s easy to open a link in a new tab without right clicking. You can middle click (Windows and Linux) or command+click (MacOS). However there’s no easy way to force a browser to open a link in the current tab if the site wants to use a new tab.
What I hate is when you click on what’s supposed to be an image that you’d expect to expand, but instead it’s a link because the embed isn’t supported. Then when you hit back you lose your place because the page your on isn’t saved and you’ve lost your place trying to get back.
I made this user style to help fix that problem by outlining images, and also make it so when you click an image it expands over the page at full size up to the width of the screen.
Though it’s not perfect. If the image is already black it’s hard to tell. You could change the outline color to something less common, but that looks ugly. Changing the boundary radius would probably be the best, but it’s already marked as !important so I don’t think I can change it. I’m open to suggestions on improving that part.
The answer is because its version 0.18
