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  • Feb 5, 2007, 05:22 AM
    RickJ
    Links inconsistency
    Pasted link:
    St. Gabriel Radio Home - Welcome!

    Text made a link:
    text

    Text made a link and underlined:
    text
  • Feb 5, 2007, 05:26 AM
    RickJ
    1 Attachment(s)
    All three of the above open in a new tab for me. Oddly, the link in this post opens in the same tab:
    https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/writin...tml#post276385

    Ben, do you have any clue why I've got this inconsistency? I'm using FF 2.0.0.1. The only Add-Ons I've got are these two:
  • Feb 5, 2007, 06:17 AM
    Curlyben
    Check your options.
    You should be able to state how it deals with links.
  • Feb 5, 2007, 06:21 AM
    RickJ
    Regardless, there should be consistency. In this thread, links in posts are opening in a new tab, but in other threads (like the one I pointed to above), links are opening in the same tab.

    I first thought it was the Google toolbar messing something up, but I've uninstalled it and it's still inconsistent.
  • Feb 5, 2007, 07:10 AM
    Curlyben
    Admittedly I have something similar.
    I have mine set so different domains open in a new tab, but I have noticed that links in posts referring within the site also open in a new tab.
    Do all links have the _blank code ?
  • Feb 5, 2007, 07:56 AM
    RickJ
    I've not looked at the code for any pages. It's a vBulletin feature for the links in posts to open in a new window.

    I see now that the inconsistency is only with Firefox. In IE, all links within posts open in a new window.
  • Feb 5, 2007, 08:16 AM
    RickJ
    I'm thinking that this is something "unsolvable" since it's an issue of Firefox only... and I might guess that regardless of what we do with the coding of the site, we probably cannot force FF to open posted links in a new tab or new window since there are so many different setting options - at at least two different tab behavior addons for FF.

    Does that sound right Roel?
  • Feb 5, 2007, 11:28 PM
    Roel Zylstra
    Sounds somewhat right. It isn't "unsolvable" it's just not a site issue. It's a browser issue. This thread probably belongs in the Firefox topic.

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