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.
You can use middle click to open sites in a different tab
Web apps should not override the configured behavior of browsers.
Yeah, but no: blind and visually impaired people have troubles navigating the web because of these links that are opened in a new tab/window.
It could be an option to activate, though.
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.
If you force tabs to open in a new tab/window, how do you open it in the same tab/window?
Ultimately, it is about user control and possibly accessibility.
Depending on your input device you can open a link in a new tab directly through
The alternative or fallback is to use the context menu like you say.
Who says they should categorically and always open in new tabs though? In what contexts? On what kind of environment behavior does that depend? Does it assume a standard single open, auto focus, close, get back to the previous page? What makes a navigate back worse?
If you want a general, categorical solution for your preference, as long as Lemmy does not provide a setting for it, a simple browser addon could automatically adjust all links on a websites pages, or your browser may offer it.
Alexandrite opens external links in new tabs.
There's browser addons in the meantime. !plugins@sh.itjust.works
Totally agree !
I have a greasemonkey script that does this on instances that support the "old" theme. I'm having trouble getting it to work on the default theme because target="_blank" seems to work intermittently. Or I could be doing something wrong, I haven't looked into it too deeply.
I wrote a userscript for old.lemmy.world to make the header floaty and to force links into a new tab.
It's not completely perfect, but it's increased my QOL and I'd hate to go back.
It won't work on the default site, of course.
Let me know if you want it, it's short enough to just paste in a reply.
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