Clinking (legit) links in this forum

[pablo_h]

Is it just me?
Whenever I click a link in this forum, it opens in the current window/tab; ie. I have to remember to click 'back' to get back to this site. Doesn't happen in any other forum, and I'm so used to just closing the linked page off site after I've seen it, and then it's :"arg, lost me f1Rejects forum page." Have to go back to speed dial/bookmark and load the F1Rejects site again and go back to wherever I was previously
Not a complaint or a rant, I'll just have to remember to always click 'back' from the other site back to here, just want to know if it's just me... And if not, is there anyway to set this forum to load any links in a new tab/window/browser instead?
edit: I usually set up and use the scroll wheel button/middle button to open and links in another tab in the background, I do it so much though when checking search results or off site images everywhere else, that's the first button on my mouse worn out, so not really looking for work arounds, I just find this 'feature' of this forum very peculiar as no other site does this (opens in current active window with a left click and leaves the forum.)

[DemocalypseNow]

I have developed an habit of right click > open in new tab-ing every link, so doesn't happen to me...

[AndreaModa]

I have developed an habit of right click > open in new tab-ing every link, so doesn't happen to me...

Same for me, although I do feel pablo_h's pain as I have made that error multiple times, not just here but elsewhere too. Can be a right pain in the arse but Chrome allows you to get previously closed tabs back up and you navigate back from there. Not sure if it's available in other browsers.

[pablo_h]

I have developed an habit of right click > open in new tab-ing every link, so doesn't happen to me...

Like I said, I know there is work arounds, but want to know if a left click opens up the link in the same tab browser (so you'd lose the F1reject page if you closed the tab) or it's just me that happens to and there's a setting I can change in my profile or something. Or if this happens to everyone here when just doing a normal left click on links, and if it does, that's pretty weird as no other place I go to does that.

[pablo_h]

I have developed an habit of right click > open in new tab-ing every link, so doesn't happen to me...

Same for me, although I do feel pablo_h's pain as I have made that error multiple times, not just here but elsewhere too. Can be a right pain in the arse but Chrome allows you to get previously closed tabs back up and you navigate back from there. Not sure if it's available in other browsers.

I use Opera, I can reload closed tabs (there's a trash can button to reload the page I closed), but it would be that off site link and can't navigate backwards from that, it only loads the page I closed.

Oh well I'll just keep using the middle button instead of left clicking. I normally did, but stopped recently as it's dodgey, normally use it when looking through search engine results, to keep the search page open but load heaps of things in the background to see if it's what I was looking for, so gets a work out, and I don't really need to use it in other forums as I've never had this problem anywhere else.

[dr-baker]

Whenever I navigate any website (Autosport, BBC News, email provider), all links open up in the same window, so I don't experience this. And this is the only forum I ever really frequently frequent. So I'm used to this. Sorry to be the difficult one.

[DemocalypseNow]

I have developed an habit of right click > open in new tab-ing every link, so doesn't happen to me...

Same for me, although I do feel pablo_h's pain as I have made that error multiple times, not just here but elsewhere too. Can be a right pain in the arse but Chrome allows you to get previously closed tabs back up and you navigate back from there. Not sure if it's available in other browsers.

I can confirm Firefox also has this functionality.

There is one exception to the above - sometimes I'll use the Google searh box in the top right hand corner of FF while using my active window, do what I need to do, then shut it down, forgetting I need to go backwards to get back where I was, because usually I'd still have it open. Can't stop doing that...

But yes, I agree that all external urls should be set by default to "target=new".

[DanielPT]

I have developed an habit of right click > open in new tab-ing every link, so doesn't happen to me...

Same for me, although I do feel pablo_h's pain as I have made that error multiple times, not just here but elsewhere too. Can be a right pain in the arse but Chrome allows you to get previously closed tabs back up and you navigate back from there. Not sure if it's available in other browsers.

I can confirm Firefox also has this functionality.

There is one exception to the above - sometimes I'll use the Google searh box in the top right hand corner of FF while using my active window, do what I need to do, then shut it down, forgetting I need to go backwards to get back where I was, because usually I'd still have it open. Can't stop doing that...

But yes, I agree that all external urls should be set by default to "target=new".

Yes it has. It is the one I use it to navigate in this forum so no stress for me. Anyway, clicking back several times or doing right click -> open in new tab is not really a nuisance for me.

[Salamander]

I have developed an habit of right click > open in new tab-ing every link, so doesn't happen to me...

PROTIP: Middle-clicking gets the job done in half the clicks.

[DemocalypseNow]

I have developed an habit of right click > open in new tab-ing every link, so doesn't happen to me...

PROTIP: Middle-clicking gets the job done in half the clicks.

I'm on a laptop with only a trackpad all the time so I don't have this function available to me