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Links won't open in new tab.

In settings, I've checked 'open links in new tab', but it doesn't work. Is there anything I can do to fix it?

ETA Someone suggested I try a different interface, and turns out it works fine in alex.lemmy.ca, just not lemmy.ca. So problem is at least kind of solved! Thanks so much everyone for taking the time to help!

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  • i just tested this and it appeared to work for me. post links opened in new tabs, but links in comments or post bodies didn't open in new tabs.

    are any of those working for you?

    • I just double-checked, an no links open in new tabs... not the links for posts, not the links within posts leading to news articles and such... so neither internal, nor external links open in new tabs.

  • In your browser settings see if your settings are set to open links in new tabs.

    • Ya, I checked it a couple of times to be sure... even unchecked it, then checked it off again and it's still not working.

      • Does this behavior work as expected on other sites?

        Do you have another browser you could try it in. It may be your browser not the website. If it does work in a different browser as expected then its not the site.

  • When I click on an external link it does open in a new tab for me. 🤔

    • Hmm, doesn't work for me... I'm constantly surfing away then having to come back. It's minor, but annoying.

  • For some reason it opens in a new tab in Linux but in the same tab in Windows for me. I've never been able to figure out why 🤷

    • I can't figure it out either. Just that this is the only site where it's not working, so I wondered if there was something in the settings here that I'm missing.

      • Before the option was available in Lemmy, I used to force it to open in a new tab with a greasemonkey script. That should still work if you're not able to get it to work the way it's supposed to.

        edit: I think it was this script.

      • If you aren't able to fix this, another option is to use an alternative front-end. I booted into Windows and couldn't get it to work properly but I tried two front-ends -- photon and tesseract -- and both opened external links properly in new tabs.

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