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If I want to open a link in a new tab I do - I can do it by cmd click - it's my choice. I want to have that choice, not have a website make that choice for me.
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+1 this is also how I browse.
FWIW the current "proper" way of thinking is that people are supposed to be able to decide whether to open external links in another window or not, and websites aren't supposed to enforce that choice on people. I don't agree with it but it's considered good practice industry-wide at the present time.
DaveH
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@Eejit
But that's the point, surely? I don't want to use the back button to take me back to the forum. Half the time when I click on an external link I then browse around wherever that link takes me. By the time I've finished, the back button is often a useless way of navigating back to the forum, whereas being able to close a tab and move straight back to where I left off in the forum is much more useful.