Use the middle mouse button to open the link on a new tab
you assume that the majority of users are using a mouse. times have changed my friend.
Touchpads have middle button emulation or physical buttons
If OP’s talking about Android, it’s a pity imo that he chose to use lemmy on the browser
Ctrl+Left Click, or Cmd+Left Click for Mac
Tap with three fingers
I’m really glad they don’t! There’s so many ways to ask for a link to open in a new tab, but it’s much harder to make links open in the same tab once target=_blank is set.
This. Websites should use standard mechanisms by default, and optionally layer user preference stuff on top.
Every time you override some default browser behaviour you risk breaking workflows, harming interoperability and accessibility, etc.
OP would be better served with a grease/tamper/violentmonkey script to alter links (or inject a base target tag, whatever) than lobbying developers to change things. (Or, yknow, learning to use the middle mouse button).
Me too! Yes, workarounds exist.
But I wonder, for who is it actually more convenient to override the current lemmy tab with the target?
I understand if it is used like some one-off search engine, to find a particular content and move on. But I assume most people use lemmy more as a permanent place. Wouldn’t it benefit more people to open links in a new tab by default?
Click down on your scroll wheel with the mouse when hovering over a link to open in a new tab
I highly agree. So many times I click on links thinking I am going to expand an image only for it to navigate away from Lemmy altogether. I’d also like any image that is auto included from a link to another site to expand like a directly uploaded image would expand. Then only clicking on the link is what opens a new tab.
This is probably my biggest complaint with Lemmy. There are a number of Greasemoney scripts to improve things like that but I’ve had mixed results.
Click with middle mouse button
I do, too. You should post your commentary on the GitHub issue.
I think a user script or extension could solve that. Im sure a lot of people on lemmy can make one. I hold ctrl while clicking links so this doesn’t bother me.
At least as a user preference.
You can use Greasemonkey plugin in your browser to modify link behavior of Lemmy instances web page. Should not be too complex script.
