# Opening topics in new tabs?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687
**Category:** YoYoExpert Site Improvements
**Created:** [July 5, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687 "2012-07-05T00:22:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Will](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Will)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/1 "2012-07-05T00:22:45Z")
Everything I try to open a topic in a new tab by either clicking with the middle button, or CTRL left click, it opens in a new tab, and in the current tab. Is there any way to open a topic in a new tab, without actually right clicking, then selecting it from the menu?
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/2 "2012-07-05T00:39:38Z")
> [@Will](#):
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> Everything I try to open a topic in a new tab by either clicking with the middle button, or CTRL left click, it opens in a new tab, and in the current tab. Is there any way to open a topic in a new tab, without actually right clicking, then selecting it from the menu?
That’s how it works.
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### Author:  [@Will](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Will)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/3 "2012-07-05T00:52:07Z")
On almost every site I have used clicking the middle button opens the object in a new tab, without opening it in the current tab as well. I had just wondered why it was different here?
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/4 "2012-07-05T03:20:14Z")
> [@Studio42](#):
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> That’s how it works.
I think what he’s saying is that it works just the way you describe it for him. It does for me too. When I do what you say it opens the object in a new tab w/o also opening it in the current tab. I’m using firefox 13.0.
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### Author:  [@Hogheg](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Hogheg)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/5 "2012-07-05T10:29:22Z")
It gets on my nerves a little too - I’m also curious as to why it does this (maybe it’s a Firefox thing…)
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### Author:  [@Will](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Will)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2012, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/6 "2012-07-05T11:27:00Z")
I’m using chrome, and I noticed it doesn’t happen on the ‘recent unread posts’ list.
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### Author:  [@memoria](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/memoria)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/7 "2012-07-05T14:09:59Z")
Yeah I use Chrome and I find this quirk to be rather annoying.
I like to middle click about a dozen threads I am interested in reading and then close each one as I go thru the tabs. I am not able to use middle click for this practice and instead have to right click and then click open in a new tab.
Shouldnt be a hard fix.
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### Author:  [@dynikus](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dynikus)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 7:45am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/8 "2012-07-09T07:45:03Z")
> [@memoria](#):
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> Yeah I use Chrome and I find this quirk to be rather annoying.
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> I like to middle click about a dozen threads I am interested in reading and then close each one as I go thru the tabs. I am not able to use middle click for this practice and instead have to right click and then click open in a new tab.
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> Shouldnt be a hard fix.
That’s what I like to do. But if you go to the unread posts since last visit page, you can scrollwheel click multiple threads without them opening in your current tab.
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### Author:  [@themaddoughnut](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/themaddoughnut)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2012, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/9 "2012-07-09T12:15:49Z")
i dont know about chrome, but in firefox you can just right click and click on open in a new tab…
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/10 "2012-07-10T17:44:20Z")
> [@themaddoughnut](#):
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> i dont know about chrome, but in firefox you can just right click and click on open in a new tab…
I believe that is a setting you have to make in preferences. That may be the default setting.
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### Author:  [@Hogheg](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Hogheg)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/11 "2012-07-10T21:54:56Z")
> [@jhb8426](#):
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> > [@themaddoughnut](#):
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> > i dont know about chrome, but in firefox you can just right click and click on open in a new tab…
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> I believe that is a setting you have to make in preferences. That may be the default setting.
It’s default in both. I use Chrome and Firefox right now, both have Right Click \> Open Tab on by default.
…But the OP’s point was that some of us are just too lazy to have to Right Click \> Open Tab every time we want to open a thread in a new tab. 😛
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/12 "2012-07-10T21:59:14Z")
CTRL left click opens a topic in a new tab for me, leaving the current tab unchanged.
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### Author:  [@Will](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Will)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/13 "2012-07-11T00:43:27Z")
> [@jhb8426](#):
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> CTRL left click opens a topic in a new tab for me, leaving the current tab unchanged.
Which browser are you using, in Chrome this still opens it in the current tab as well (for me at least)
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/14 "2012-07-11T01:11:58Z")
Firefox
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### Author:  [@Big\_Yoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Big_Yoyo)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/15 "2012-07-11T02:33:46Z")
Happens in internet explorer as well
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### Author:  [@PlasticWhip](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PlasticWhip)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/16 "2012-07-11T13:48:40Z")
Works for me
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### Author:  [@RandyJ](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RandyJ)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/17 "2012-08-24T19:39:39Z")
Just want to say that this bug basically discourages me from reading this site a lot of the time. Even more so when I’m on my laptop and using browser plugins that let me navigate with keyboard only.
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### Author:  [@sparhawk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/sparhawk)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/18 "2012-08-26T22:54:24Z")
I will agree that this is most annoying when using chrome
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### Author:  [@Eastfield](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Eastfield)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/19 "2012-08-31T17:25:26Z")
Thats the case for me too - this is the only forum i’ve encountered with this “feature”
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### Author:  [@sparhawk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/sparhawk)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/opening-topics-in-new-tabs/39687/20 "2012-09-28T17:45:26Z")
bump still it’s still happening
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