Posts made by johnhenrydavis

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*Yes, maybe it's better to deal with the issue by extension, so that the browser isn't affected by those who don't want the feature. And as a matter of fact, here's an opera extension, Open New Tab, where if you hold a link a little longer, it is supposed to open the link in a new background tab. https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/open-new-tab/?display=en I tried it, though, and it didn't seem to work right for me. So, I guess we live with the right click on the tab to use context menu to open it in a new tab, or the keyboard cut (control, shift, and click on the link). It works . . .

Many thanks - that's the best solution so far. I wasn't looking for a hard coded solution anyway.
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Sorry, but that link comes up with "Unavailable Option". So much for that one!!

I have a very good reason for wanting to set the default to open in a new tab.

I am currently going through a facebook forum to save every post and have to click hundreds of links of "See previous comments", "See more comments", "See more" and so on to get all the content of all posts.

Those links merely add to the data.

It is virtually impossible NOT to occasionally click on someone's name and then all the effort to date is lost and one has to start all over again.

Removal of this option is VERY annoying and it is a reason for me to find and switch to a browser that does have such an option.

I'm sure there are lots of other people who don't want to lose the page they are on when they click on a link - it can be most annoying to lose the current page.