I like the new windows December 1, 2004 9:43 PM   Subscribe

I like that when I follow a link from The Blue it opens in a new window but when I am on The Gray or The Green links open in the same window.

Do I need to somehow make a setting in my Customize page for it to work across the board or can this pony be fixed?
posted by geekyguy to Feature Requests at 9:43 PM (24 comments total)

Windows XP Pro and IE6, btw.
posted by geekyguy at 9:44 PM on December 1, 2004


I agree, it's a pain in the ass and would like to see this feature.

In mere seconds someone wil pipe in and say "tabbed browsing" though.
posted by dobbs at 10:00 PM on December 1, 2004


think you beat me to it dobbs ... heh
posted by squeak at 10:13 PM on December 1, 2004


Tabbed browsing.

(Hey, sorry I'm late, I just got home...)
posted by SpecialK at 10:53 PM on December 1, 2004


oh, I thought I did the extra work to make it happen across all sites. Sorry about that.

To be honest, it's a total pain and I'd rather folks just used their keyboards to do it, which is easier and you can throw things into tabs or windows as you see fit (many internal links don't make sense in new windows). Usually a shift key or control key held down during clicks will do it all for you.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:59 PM on December 1, 2004


Any way to keep the gray and green from serving me steaming platters of PST? What's a poor old EST (GMT-5) to do?
posted by jenovus at 11:33 PM on December 1, 2004


many internal links don't make sense in new windows

I think the poster was only referring to external links but that may not mean anything from your amount of work pov. It's certainly what I meant, above.
posted by dobbs at 11:56 PM on December 1, 2004


I actually don't like it when sites' links open in new windows. At least, I don't like the unpredictability of it, and I like to be in control. I am in the habit of opening MeFi, MeTa and AskMe links in new tabs. I'm not an anti-Microsoft zealot by any stretch -- but if you haven't tried Firefox I think it is definitely worth a few minutes of your time. Surfing without tabs today would seem like riding a horse with a big spike on the saddle. I guess there's a tabs extension for IE too, though.
posted by nthdegx at 12:36 AM on December 2, 2004


Well, yeah IE blows but Firefox ain't much of an improvement, imo. At least not on my Mac. Crashes multiple times a day and my my microwave has better Flash support.
posted by dobbs at 1:20 AM on December 2, 2004


jenovus: go to the front page and click on customise, you can set your own time zone.
posted by biffa at 2:17 AM on December 2, 2004


biffa: If you set a UK timezone will you get "Customise" instead of "Customize?"
posted by grouse at 2:39 AM on December 2, 2004


That would be so sweet.
posted by squealy at 2:54 AM on December 2, 2004


biffa, that only applies to The Blue. I am in China and when on The Blue I see my local time but when I go to The Gray or The Green I, like jenovus, see the local time for Number 1. I don't mind as much but it is the same request - that options selected on the Customize page apply across all things Meta.
posted by geekyguy at 3:15 AM on December 2, 2004


Sorry, yes, wasn't paying attention. I think this has come up before in MeTa and was on Matt's to do list. (N.B. It's a long list)

grouse: if only.
posted by biffa at 3:33 AM on December 2, 2004


I've whipped up a few bookmarklets that might help. You will, of course, have to manually invoke the bookmarklet after you load the MeFi pages in question, but it handles the rest for you.

These have been tested in Moz 1.7, FireFox 1.0, and IE5.5/6. No idea whether they work in other browsers (but they should.)
posted by Danelope at 8:30 AM on December 2, 2004


For an IE/tabbed compromise, I use Maxthon. Uses IE's rendering engine (yeah, yeah, we shouldn't have to accommodate the idiot web designers who design pages that only work in IE, but there it is), but has tabbed browsing and also mouse gestures, which I find are a must for browsing on a tablet PC.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 8:59 AM on December 2, 2004


Matt, why are MeFi, MeTa, and AskMe all served by different code?
posted by five fresh fish at 9:24 AM on December 2, 2004


Sign me up for the "no MeFi links opening in new windows, ever" newsletter.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 1:39 PM on December 2, 2004


PST is The One True Timezone(tm). You should all be honored to be allowed to use it.
posted by Captain_Tenille at 1:44 PM on December 2, 2004


Hey, if everyone in China has to use the same timezone, I think we can manage.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 2:03 PM on December 2, 2004


PST is The One True Timezone(tm)

Only until April.
posted by timeistight at 2:17 PM on December 2, 2004


Heh. Well, as long as Matt's been needled with this particular request before. I didn't mean to be annoying. Thanks, everyone.
posted by jenovus at 2:57 PM on December 2, 2004


my microwave has better Flash support.

and a gerbil!
posted by quonsar at 3:08 PM on December 2, 2004


PST is The One True Timezone(tm)

it's about time it got the props it deserves!! WORD TO THE WEST SIDE!!!
posted by asterisk at 7:28 PM on December 2, 2004


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