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Opening links in a new tab (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I´m not sure if I´m the only one bugged out with this, but it would be nice to have either by default or an option to open links in a new tab with the regular left click.

At this point I lost count of how many times I opened a link from some news or something I found here and only remembered to come back after closing the tab. I know one could just middle click and be done with it, but other sites cough cough ~~Reddit~~ cough cough got me too used to this behavior and it would be nice to have some option for this.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

ctrl + left click is a good alternative, but target=”_blank” is better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This really would be great to be the default for link opening, rather than having to work around it with keyboard or browser settings etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If using a desktop (or anything woth a mouse) middle click opens in a new tab on most browsers. This works on ALL links, not just on a site-by-site basis

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Same can be done without a mouse using ctrl+click on Windows and Linux (usually), or cmd+click on macOS.

Two-finger tap also works on mobile Safari.