Force external links to open in a new tab
Force external links to open in a new tab
Open links in new tab. Ctrl-click or Middle-click loads it in background
I put this together based on another very similar script (attributed, of course) I found on beehaw that forces external links to open in a new tab. Should work on every Lemmy instance by checking the header. While it uses http*://*/* as the match, it only executes any logic if the isLemmy check returns true.
Honestly, this has improved my desktop experience significantly, it was killing me before.
Hope it helps, feedback/suggestions/contributions welcome!
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Just so you know I've been working on adding that functionality into lemmy for the past couple of days, as a user setting.
I'm glad someone is taking care of this. My first post on Lemmy, to thank you! (I have always hated the way links were handled in Reddit. IMO the user experience was pretty bad.)
Thank you in advance for that effort! It will be a useful setting that I intend to enable :) (or disable depending on the implementation) automatic opening in new tab, WooHoo!
the hardest part is actually understanding the rust backend. I understand the choice the devs made (I mean performance wise rust is unbeatable) but it's a bit of a nightmare to work with when you're not used to it :)
hopefully they merge it!