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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 ๐คท
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.
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.
Thanks, but I'm afraid you're talking over my head now... I haven't a clue what any of that means, sorry.
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.
No worries, I appreciate your help! Ha, I just tried it in alex.lemmy.ca and it works! So it's only lemmy.ca I'm having the problem with. Thank you!
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.
Cool, thank you!