▲ 17 ▼ I do wish that opening links in Lemmy opened them in a new browser tab (as is done in Mastodon) rather than opening them in the same tab. (lemmy.ca) submitted 2 years ago by MarkG_108@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments Subject covered in title. Is there way to set this up as a preference?
[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 years ago (1 child) oh no! Now I need to try to down vote that :-( permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) PR adding this feature has already been merged. Why the hell would you be against the option to open links in a new tab? You can decide how you want links to open, it's not like the ability to open links in the same tab will disappear. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago Because I am an idiot who clearly misunderstood that this would add an option allowing individual users to change the setting, rather than being a global change for all such links, or a setting that only instance admins had control over. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) PR adding this feature has already been merged. Why the hell would you be against the option to open links in a new tab? You can decide how you want links to open, it's not like the ability to open links in the same tab will disappear. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago Because I am an idiot who clearly misunderstood that this would add an option allowing individual users to change the setting, rather than being a global change for all such links, or a setting that only instance admins had control over. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago Because I am an idiot who clearly misunderstood that this would add an option allowing individual users to change the setting, rather than being a global change for all such links, or a setting that only instance admins had control over. permalink fedilink source parent