John connor wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 1:17 pmit's a real PITA every time I click a link it opens in the same tab and I then have to use the back button
Alternatively start using your keyboard: for most internet browser holding down CTRL while clicking forces a new tab (while SHIFT forces a new window). Likewise ALT+LEFT goes back to the previously visited site (and ALT+RIGHT goes forward once you did go backwards).
It also comes down to the internet browser and how it lets you make settings per website - years ago Opera (v12 and before) could be configured perfectly for all that without being bound to what the website owner wanted or missed. The internet browser was even smart enough to let you do that on form submittings (speak: like using the editor here when making a reply, and then holding down CTRL while clicking on the "Submit" button would open a new tab with the outcome, while the original editor was left untouched - this was great in unstable environments and you disliked typing texts again and again).
John connor wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2019 1:17 pmonly this site I have to remember to middle mouse button the link to open in a new tab. Damn near every site I've come across opens a link in a new tab. Why this website can't do that is asinine.
No, the opposite is. And I fear you don't want it to be consistent, just like the example I already mentioned: that clicking form buttons would also force a new tab. Up to this day I don't understand website owners that force me to do at least 5 clicks (and then I the actual data is still hidden in a PDF) with the outcome of having 5 new tabs -
as if I'm never done reading any of the previous pages.
I don't have mouses with a middle button: there's always the wheel. Didn't mouses with a middle button extinct when the wheel was invented?
