Clicking links ≠ open new?

September 9, 2007 8:24 AM

Clicking links ≠ open in new tab/window?

MeFi used to open all links in the blue in a new page for me. No longer so. I think this is a fairly recent change in behaviour.

Does the same hold true for others? I don't recall doing a thing with my bookmark for the site, so I think the change must be on the MeFi side. I have deleted cookies to ensure it isn't a pref's buggery.

posted by five fresh fish to Bugs at 8:24 AM (10 comments total)

We haven't changed anything. Did you go into your mefi prefs just to make sure "Open links in new windows?" doesn't have a checkbox next to it? Did you check your browser pref to make sure it's not set to do that, or any Greasemonkey scripts you might have running?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:30 AM on September 9, 2007

Would you do two things here?

1. Make sure "Open links in new windows" is (re-)checked in your preferences;
2. Let us know which links on the blue are and are not opening in new page/tab.

When the linked more-inside thing went live on AskMe a little while back, the links weren't tagged correctly to follow the normal behavior (whatever it is—I don't use that setting, so I don't know how it usually behaves). I'm wondering if it's related to that, if something is up.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:30 AM on September 9, 2007

If you're using firefox (1.x.x.x) you might want to consider installing tab mix plus; it has lots of options detailing which links open in new windows, new tabs, etc.
posted by tehloki at 8:59 AM on September 9, 2007

If you're using firefox (2.x.x.x) you might want to consider installing tab mix plus; it has lots of options detailing which links open in new windows, new tabs, etc.
posted by philomathoholic at 9:07 AM on September 9, 2007

I see what you did there.

(My bad. Last time I checked, TM+ didn't support firefox 2, but now it does. heh)
posted by tehloki at 9:38 AM on September 9, 2007

Cortex: the checkbox is enabled, as it should be. All links are opening in the page in which they were clicked. Anything on the front page, for example, overwrites the front page instead of popping open a new tab.

Opera 9.23. I've checked my browser settings; they seem legit and seem to be what I normally use.

I've checked source; there's nothing unusual in there that I can see; otoh, I don't know how you were doing the new-window links, so I can't really say for sure that it's all legit.
posted by five fresh fish at 10:00 AM on September 9, 2007

Sorry, my bad saying we didn't change anything. I didn't know that the [more inside] stuff changed link-opening behavior in some cases.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:03 AM on September 9, 2007

The more inside links lead to the same window, as they should. We haven't changed anything regarding new window links, so it's either your browser or... your browser that is acting weird.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:14 AM on September 9, 2007

Would the new "[more inside] stuff" affect the Youtube embedding option? Today some youtube links provide it for me, some do not.
posted by carsonb at 10:31 AM on September 9, 2007

Well, I normally shift-click 'em open, so it's really not a problem in the end.
posted by five fresh fish at 7:20 PM on September 10, 2007