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!

  • breakfastmtn
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    6 days ago

    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 🤷

    • ehpoliticalOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • breakfastmtn
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        5 days ago

        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.

        • ehpoliticalOPEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Thanks, but I’m afraid you’re talking over my head now… I haven’t a clue what any of that means, sorry.

          • breakfastmtn
            2·
            5 days ago

            Sorry! It’s actually pretty simple. There are different interfaces you can use (like Reddit vs old Reddit). You can find the links on the instance sidebar.

            These are the two I mentioned:

            https://photon.lemmy.ca/
            https://tess.lemmy.ca/

            Same account but just a different look and feel (and sometimes a few extra features). You can switch between them by just using the different urls.

      • breakfastmtn
        2·
        6 days ago

        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.