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Author:	Kathy's Pete [ Sat Jan 09, 2010 8:03 pm ]
Post subject:	Have links open in a new window
Fuzzy: I just installed this mod in a board I'm setting up for my car club. Easy to do but it requires FTP access to implement. http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/links-o ... w-windows/ This makes links in forum posts open a new browser window. phpBB changed its behavior from V2.X to V3.0 but I prefer the old behavior since I can get back to the post simply by closing the new window ("Back" doesn't always work depending on the behavior of the target website). What do you think?

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Author:	TheFuzzy [ Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:52 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Have links open in a new window
Pete, I'd rather not. Right now, users can choose to open posts in a new window (or a new tab) if they want to, and not if they don't. If we add that mod, we take that choice away. This is especially important to me because sometimes I read the board on my Very Small Computer-Phone, which is very unhappy about opening new windows. How about I write up a HOWTO instead?

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Author:	Kathy's Pete [ Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:36 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Have links open in a new window
Got it. No problem.

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Author:	Paul Kierstead [ Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:15 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Have links open in a new window
Notably with Firefox, you can configure a mouse button to open a link in a new tab. Typically I assign the middle mouse button (scroll wheel) to open in a new tab. In Chrome this is the default behavior (might be in Firefox too, it seems to change from time to time). I can (and often do) scan through a page clicking on all things of interest and then flip through the tabs. Chrome is nice because the tabs open adjacent to the source tab.

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