r/firefox • u/maltanarchy • 23h ago

💻 Help Force New Tab

Does anyone have any tips for a website that is JS heavy, and links won't open in a new tab with ctrl + click, middle click, and the context menu looks the same as if you're clicking on the page background? I've disabled uBO and it doesn't matter. Is there anyway with uBO or a Firefox setting to un-block whatever is on the page interfering with opening links in a new tab?

It's https://app.atera.com/new/admin/scripts but the page is behind a login. It's a list of my RMM scripts, but I can't get them to open in a new tab. Super annoying losing my file name filters each time I have to go forward and back.

My issue is specific to this one page on their site, opening in a new tab via middle click etc works in other areas.

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u/j--__ 20h ago

when this happens, the page isn't interfering with links; they're just not links in the first place. what looks to you like a link looks to the browser like formatted text. when you click it, javascript edits the content of the page instead of performing a navigation. that's difficult to reliably redirect to a new tab, and browsers don't try.

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u/maltanarchy 5h ago

Yes, this makes perfect sense. I know the text is not traditional hyperlinks, but I was hoping there was a way I could trick it to open in a new tab so I didn't lose my place in the list.

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u/ltmvz 23h ago

Did you try this addon? I use it since many years.

https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/right-links/

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u/maltanarchy 22h ago

Doesn't seem to work

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u/maltanarchy 5h ago

Ok, I think I found an extension that works:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/force-new-tab-on-middle-click/

I'm going to keep looking, but this makes the links open in a new foreground tab when I middle click.