Force new tab in Chrome (on a mac)
March 8, 2018 8:13 AM Subscribe
Most of the time command+click opens a new tab in the background just fine and I can navigate there when I'm ready. Recently though, more and more sites seem to have broken that functionality and it's stopped working as expected. I'm not sure why or if there's a way to solve it.
The two sites that jump to my mind are Fivethirtyeight, where command+click opens a new tab but makes it the active tab (but only for the first time I try it on a visit, subsequent command+click revert to the default behavior), and now the new techcrunch beta, where I have to select open a new tab from the right click menu to get the behavior I want and command+clicking doesn't work well at all.
Is there any way to force this functionality that I'm looking for? It's a minor annoyance to be sure, but I'd really prefer to have the option of interacting with websites how I'd like rather than having it dictated to me by people who don't know my workflow. I'd even be fine with a browser extension, but most of the ones that popped up when I search are for forcing all links to open in a new tab, not just some.
The two sites that jump to my mind are Fivethirtyeight, where command+click opens a new tab but makes it the active tab (but only for the first time I try it on a visit, subsequent command+click revert to the default behavior), and now the new techcrunch beta, where I have to select open a new tab from the right click menu to get the behavior I want and command+clicking doesn't work well at all.
Is there any way to force this functionality that I'm looking for? It's a minor annoyance to be sure, but I'd really prefer to have the option of interacting with websites how I'd like rather than having it dictated to me by people who don't know my workflow. I'd even be fine with a browser extension, but most of the ones that popped up when I search are for forcing all links to open in a new tab, not just some.
This is more informational than a solution, but Chrome allows OWA (O365 Web Application, the web mail successor to Exchange) to hijack cmd-R, so that a reply window opens rather than refreshing the tab and polling for new mail. Selecting Reload This Page from the View menu still works. I too find this incredibly annoying (and insecure), and we might be stuck with it.
posted by JawnBigboote at 11:33 AM on March 8, 2018
posted by JawnBigboote at 11:33 AM on March 8, 2018
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posted by beagle at 9:59 AM on March 8, 2018