Open in new window

[robinturner]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again (and will probably say it again and again) ...

Webmasters, please do not make links open in a new window. New windows are almost as irritating as popups (which I block for almost all sites). If I want a new window, I will open one, but I hardly ever do, because it is not the 1990s, and these days we have things called tabs. If I click with the left mouse button rather than the wheel, that means I want the page to open in the same window. Really.

Comments

[cibetky.livejournal.com]

In Firefox, you can disable opening new windows. I haven't seen one in ages. ;-)

[solri.livejournal.com]

I looked for that feature in Mozilla, but couldn't find it, though it might be in 1.7. I know Firefox has some bifty features that haven't been ported back to the main distribution yet, so this could be one of them.

Yay, Firefox is number one!

[cibetky.livejournal.com]

I didn't like the main distribution of Mozilla last time I tried it, it's still "ugly". :-)

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

But new windows are good when starting new "research trees"... Plus, not everyone has tabs; most of the world still uses that icky nutscrape or IE.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Sure, new windows are sometimes useful, but it should be up to the user to decide when to open one (surely even IE can do that). I hear that tabbing will be part of the next version of IE, as Microsoft finally enter the twenty-first century (I remember when nVidia brought out a Windows add-on a few years back to allow a semblance of virtual desktops - welcome to the 1980s!).

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

Enh.. I guess... I'm a new-window person, so I kinda like when the link is progged to open a new window (or better yet, a new tab); cuz sometimes I just get so busy clicking I forget to open new windows, then I can't read as many pgs simultaneously or I have to go back and forward.