This would make it easier to look at something someone linked to at a later time, or peruse a linked site while staying on the ‘Bakery concurrently. I assume there's a reason links don't open new windows, but I don't know what it is.
-- snarfyguy, Nov 10 2001

(Shh, but don't tell anyone...) javascript:eval(tmp...=50'));tmp.focus();
[lubbit, Feb 22 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]

(???) Ah, yes. Here it is. http://www.dmv.ca.g...finst/welin5150.htm
5150 definition [half, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

I don't know if there's a reason either, but there's a simple fix in the mean time:
Right click.
Left click "Open in New Window."
Done. Unless you use something other than windows, in which case I don't know.
-- AfroAssault, Nov 10 2001


In some browsers, you can middle-click, too.

"Halfbakey"?
-- cp, Nov 10 2001


I don't know what jutta's reasons are but I've stopped doing it too. Other than offering a greater choice my reason for stopping was that links that open a new window won't work in some cybercafés.

re: halfbakery and time distortion. I'm reading this from the year 1872 and although we're au fait with the latest activeX technology, I'm unable to get my horseless hovercraft to work.
-- st3f, Nov 10 2001


The reason that links don't open new windows is that I don't like having to close them after I've used them, and I don't like having to fiddle with window management to position them; I also vaguely feel that opening new windows on my desktop without my explicit action is presumptuous of a site. What's it doing reaching out of its little box? Shoo!

As far as I can tell, this is simply a personal preference. If this site had a lot more per-person options, "links open new windows" might be one of them.

In sites where links _do_ open new windows, I find it irritating if these new windows are always the same (that is, the "target" parameter in the links has the same name.) What would you prefer, a different new window for each link, or the same window every time (which simply happens to be different from the halfbakery window)?
-- jutta, Nov 10 2001


I prefer doing it myself. I am perfectly capable of opening my own windows, and find it vastly annoying when websites open windows on me.
-- StarChaser, Nov 10 2001


Baked (see link). But not likely to be popular.
-- lubbit, Feb 22 2002


I had posted this idea (request) ages ago. Was similarly frowned upon. So I've gotten used to doing the right-click, "open in new window" routine.

Google allows this option (under Preferences).
-- waugsqueke, Feb 22 2002


Did this pop up to the top because an insane person made a link to nothing?
-- half, Nov 10 2003


I was wondering why this popped back up too. That link works, if you allow Javascript pop-ups, and looks like it was added with the annotation a long time ago. The previous mechanism for ghost pop-ups was to add an annotation then delete it, but I thought that feature had been fixed.
-- DrCurry, Nov 10 2003


Actually it is that second link that caused it, that person did the same thing on three different ideas.
-- krelnik, Nov 10 2003


I was referring to the second link. (5150 is a code used by some law enforcement agencies to indicate someone who is crazy, psychotic, off their rocker, nuts, or something like that)
-- half, Nov 10 2003


In Netscape go to Edit ==> Preferences ==> Navigator ==> Tabbed Browsing.
-- spiraliii, Nov 10 2003


Yeah... both of you still using it.
-- waugsqueke, Nov 10 2003



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