Request: Force "open in new tab" about fraidycat HOT 8 OPEN

Thankyou all for your thoughts so far. I'm going to address this in the 1.2.0 redesign, but if anyone else wants to chime in, please do.

from fraidycat.

This is coming. See #153 for the main discussion - although I am fine keeping this open, because it's subtly different.

The idea is to offer a way of customizing the click event on individual link or blog titles - send this to vlc, send this to Pocket, open this in a new tab. But this won't be coming until Fraidycat 2 - which I am still trying to plan out.

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I'll chime in too, just because I've probably got a unique-ish use case.

I've got a custom new tab page where I've trapped fraidycat in an iframe. (Just a context-sensitive navbar really)

Unfortunately, some sites don't like being in iframes as much as fraidycat does:

I think having a configurable option would be the nicest way to handle this, as that'll give flexibility for people like me, who like to over-complicate things.

from fraidycat.

I vote for links opening in a new tab. My UX behaviour (and I think for most) is like this:

• I use middle-click consistently on links which navigate within the same website, I am conscious I need to use middle-click
• Fraidycat has the UX feel of an app where you expect to click on a link and have a new tab open, so it's not an issue of not knowing to use middle-click. Especially considering Fraidycat's content points to other areas of the web and not within Fraidycat.

In a funny way, when I'd left-click on a link I'd think "Fraidycat doesn't want me to use Fraidycat" because it keeps "self-closing" itself when opening links, haha.

from fraidycat.

Also great that it can make sense of TiddlyWiki! Very useful for TiddlyWiki enthusiasts to be able to track when stuff in releases change.

I am a huge TiddlyWiki fan as well - what can I say? 🥰

For now you can middle-click on the link to open a new tab. I am conflicted about making this change and would like to put it to a vote. I could go either way. I just don't want to bug people with new tabs opening! Thank you for bringing this up.

from fraidycat.

I'm voting for this, too. I have Fraidycat as a "pinned tab" -- and if I don't remember to click-to-open-in-new-tab, then I lose the tab.

I think Fraidycat needs to be thought of more like an app -- you want to be able to navigate back to it.

Thanks for your work on FC!

from fraidycat.

I prefer opening a link in the same window/tab by default. Maybe this is a feature that could be configurable in the settings?

from fraidycat.

This is actually kinda in the latest release: (last item in the menu here)

However, the pull request I merged doesn't change the title links as well. So... look for next release.

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