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Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?
by colonel_panic 14y ago
Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?
- cocoflunchy 14y agoWell I middle-click...
- trustfundbaby 14y agoyes
- WiseWeasel 14y agoRequires two hands, but I often find it easier to control-click on links to open in a new tab, and that still works in this case.
- Seth_Kriticos 14y agoI open new tabs with middle click (scroll wheel click). That works too. It also works for closing tabs.
- jwallaceparker 14y agoI do this too. CTRL-click to open a new tab. That is NOT working for me on a Mac.
- armandososa 14y agoIt's command + click on mac.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- joeblau 14y agoOr if you're on a newer laptop, you can press down with two fingers on the touch pad.
- mhartl 14y agoOn OS X, you can use Command-click for that.
- IsaacL 14y agoI'd say the best way would be to add a "No, I just want to get to the homepage!" option to the lightbox. No cookies or saving preferences, just a simple link. But track how often that link is clicked, and if it really is a lot more than 1% of people, then you know it's a behaviour worth accounting for and can code in your preference tracking thing accordingly. If not, no time wasted.
- tombell 14y agoCtrl (or Cmd) Click, done.
- repsilat 14y agoThough it's falling further and further behind mainstream browsers, Konqueror seems to take a principled stand on some of these things - I can still right-click on the github logo normally, and my keyboard isn't intercepted by flash plugins. I think there's a small market for a browser (or browser plugin) that's all about client control. Querying mouse position, hijacking keypresses and showing popup windows and modal dialogs should be activated with a "This site tried to... Allow/Deny". NoScript gets part of the way there, but I think you could go even further. Pages should display as soon as the HTML starts downloading, before CSS is loaded, before JS is all there, whatever. I don't care if this causes the page to jump a few times, or if it breaks a few scripts because it's not standards compliant, I just want to read my content on a slow connection. I probably want to disable webfonts. They're a vanity thing, mostly, and the more I consider it the more I think I should be picking the fonts I read. Maybe you could go even further - for specific sites with really atrocious interfaces you could have custom-written interfaces that almost completely remodel them (a'la Readability, I guess). I'm sure it would annoy web developers to have their pages render "incorrectly" on your screen, but screw them. My browser, my rules.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoDouble right-click brings up the regular browser menu on FF on Linux FWIW.
- armandososa 14y agoI'd guess that people who wants to open a link on a new tab but doesn't know how to middle-click or command + click is indeed a very small minority.
- sjs 14y agoI doubt it's a matter of knowing or not knowing about those, it's just convenience. If my hand is not on the mouse then I will just Cmd-L gith<TAB><RETURN>, but if my hands are not on the keyboard then I will right-click Open In New Tab.
- tedunangst 14y agoYou and me both. Apparently I'm expected to go out and buy a new laptop with a middle mouse button so I can open new tabs properly.
- LukeShu 14y agoIf you left and right click at the same time, it will middle click.
- tedunangst 14y agoExcept when it doesn't. My thoughts on that are in another comment.
- nileshtrivedi 14y agoOr you can do a Ctrl + click to open a link in a new tab.
- nileshtrivedi 14y agoThe usual right-click menu works fine (using FF on linux).
- vimalg2 14y agoAm i the only person who uses middle click(the scroll wheel button) to open a link in a new tab? This worked for the github icon too; i just checked (Opera 11.61/Linux)
- mfieldhouse 14y agoNo, no you're not.
- TeMPOraL 14y agoTo all that mentioning middle-click: what about when I want to open the main page in a new window? Or copy URL to the page? (sometimes it's faster to right-click on logo than to move up and copy-paste from address bar; also keyboard is not involved).