New Tab when clicking links

[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.

[Burgerbob]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[Matt K]

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

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/bbco ... n_new_tab/

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

[blap73]

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

[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.

[robcat2075]

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

Active topics (no classifieds)

[Matt K]

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

Active topics (no classifieds)

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:

https://trombonechat.com/search.php?sea ... mit=Search

[robcat2075]

EDIT: You might try bookmarking this awful URL...

That does solve the problem. Thanks!