New Tab when clicking links

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asmith
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by asmith »

Would it be possible to change settings to open a new tab when clicking a link? I know I have a bad habit of accidentally closing my tab when I finish looking at someone's photos or whatever external link they posted.
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Burgerbob
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by Burgerbob »

If you're on a computer, middle click or ctrl+click to open a new tab.
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BGuttman
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by BGuttman »

What I do is to right click on the link and select "Open in new tab". I haven't found a way to make the Board do this automatically.
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TexHipp
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by TexHipp »

Also: your web browser might have a Re-Open Closed Tab tool. On desktop FireFox, it's a right-click in the upper menu bar. On mobile Safari, shake the device to activate the undo close tab menu.
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asmith
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by asmith »

Thanks all. I am familiar with opening a link in a new tab.

phpBB should have a setting that can be changed to automatically add the feature. I was just making the suggestion to add the convenience.
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BGuttman
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by BGuttman »

I've been looking all over. Vivaldi and Firefox do this automatically, EXCEPT for this board. Couldn't find anything on my dashboard either.
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sacfxdx
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by sacfxdx »

I accidentally close the window all the time. I just reopen and use history if I can’t remember the link. If you do it enough you might remember to click back. I never remember though. :shuffle:
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brumpone
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by brumpone »

I do this too, so have become best friends with Ctrl+Shift+T to quickly reopen closed tabs in some browsers, or long press the '+' new tab button in Mobile Safari to get a list of recently closed tabs
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Matt_K
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by Matt_K »

I can add a custom BB code, but people would have to know to use it:

<LINK_TEXT text="https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/bbco ... n_new_tab/">https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/bbcode/open_link_in_new_tab/</LINK_TEXT>

Alternatively, I might be able to make it moving forward that external links default to that (I can customize the HTML that is generated by the BB code that invokes a foreign link). Honestly, this would be surprising and disruptive to how I use it but I often have unusual preferences to the point where if I think something works well, the opposite of that is probably what I should do :lol:
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blap73
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by blap73 »

eBay is automatically opening new tabs when I click on something. I do not like it.
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BGuttman
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by BGuttman »

Ebay does this when I have done a search and am looking at items from the search. If I have items on My Ebay and I look at them it opens in the same tab.
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robcat2075
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by robcat2075 »

Since you are considering feature suggestions... how about menu item:

Active topics (no classifieds)
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Matt_K
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by Matt_K »

[quote="robcat2075"]Since you are considering feature suggestions... how about menu item:

Active topics (no classifieds)[/quote]

Unfortunately, that one is definitely impossible with the way the software is currently built. I can, however, add you to a special group we created awhile ago that is "banned" from the classifieds section but then, of course, you'd have to log out or use a private window to see the classifieds. EDIT: Actually, I forgot we blocked that from public view because of the scammer problem. You'd actually have to make a 2nd account to see the classifieds in that case.

EDIT: You might try bookmarking this awful URL:

<LINK_TEXT text="https://trombonechat.com/search.php?sea ... mit=Search">https://trombonechat.com/search.php?search_id=active_topics&author=&fid[]=26&fid[]=27&fid[]=28&fid[]=68&fid[]=74&fid[]=71&fid[]=32&fid[]=33&fid[]=39&fid[]=34&fid[]=40&fid[]=41&fid[]=42&fid[]=43&fid[]=35&fid[]=44&fid[]=45&fid[]=46&fid[]=47&fid[]=48&fid[]=49&fid[]=36&fid[]=50&fid[]=51&fid[]=52&fid[]=53&fid[]=54&fid[]=55&fid[]=56&fid[]=37&fid[]=57&fid[]=58&fid[]=59&fid[]=60&fid[]=61&fid[]=38&fid[]=62&fid[]=63&fid[]=64&fid[]=65&fid[]=66&fid[]=67&fid[]=7&fid[]=3&fid[]=4&fid[]=29&fid[]=8&fid[]=9&fid[]=30&fid[]=31&fid[]=10&fid[]=11&fid[]=19&fid[]=20&fid[]=72&fid[]=12&fid[]=13&fid[]=14&fid[]=15&fid[]=16&fid[]=17&fid[]=18&sc=1&sf=all&sr=posts&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search</LINK_TEXT>
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robcat2075
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by robcat2075 »

[quote="Matt K"]EDIT: You might try bookmarking this awful URL...[/quote]

That does solve the problem. Thanks!