• Deebster
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    181 year ago

    I’m really glad they don’t! There’s so many ways to ask for a link to open in a new tab, but it’s much harder to make links open in the same tab once target=_blank is set.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      This. Websites should use standard mechanisms by default, and optionally layer user preference stuff on top.

      Every time you override some default browser behaviour you risk breaking workflows, harming interoperability and accessibility, etc.

      OP would be better served with a grease/tamper/violentmonkey script to alter links (or inject a base target tag, whatever) than lobbying developers to change things. (Or, yknow, learning to use the middle mouse button).

      • trimmerfrost
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        01 year ago

        Touchpads have middle button emulation or physical buttons

        If OP’s talking about Android, it’s a pity imo that he chose to use lemmy on the browser

  • Carighan Maconar
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    91 year ago

    It should be an option IMO, I prefer not ending up with loads of tabs. But definitely good to have the option for those who do.

  • @Supervisor194
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    I wrote a script that makes Lemmy links on old.lemmy behave this way (like you like them on reddit).

    You can use it as a bookmarklet or if you use grease/tampermonkey you can apply it to the site automagically.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    just middle click

    I’m sick of things that open new tabs when I don’t want them to and those stupid JavaScript.void() “”““links””“”

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    Agreed! Especially since the behavior on clicking a thumbnail isn’t very consistent on mobile. Sometimes I click the thumbnail and it expands the image. Sometimes it follows a link. Sometimes going back from a link takes me back to the same Lemmy page I was on, but other times it reloads the page and I can’t find the post I was looking at anymore. An option to open all links in a new tab would really help me not lose the post I was looking at when I clicked.

  • Spzi
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    21 year ago

    Me too! Yes, workarounds exist.

    But I wonder, for who is it actually more convenient to override the current lemmy tab with the target?

    I understand if it is used like some one-off search engine, to find a particular content and move on. But I assume most people use lemmy more as a permanent place. Wouldn’t it benefit more people to open links in a new tab by default?

  • Lexi Sneptaur
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    21 year ago

    Click down on your scroll wheel with the mouse when hovering over a link to open in a new tab

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    You can use Greasemonkey plugin in your browser to modify link behavior of Lemmy instances web page. Should not be too complex script.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    11 year ago

    This is probably my biggest complaint with Lemmy. There are a number of Greasemoney scripts to improve things like that but I’ve had mixed results.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    I highly agree. So many times I click on links thinking I am going to expand an image only for it to navigate away from Lemmy altogether. I’d also like any image that is auto included from a link to another site to expand like a directly uploaded image would expand. Then only clicking on the link is what opens a new tab.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    I think a user script or extension could solve that. Im sure a lot of people on lemmy can make one. I hold ctrl while clicking links so this doesn’t bother me.