How to prevent Chinese websites always opening in new browser tab

[歐博思]

Seems that the vast majority of websites in China will open links in a new tab with a regular click. Is there a way to prevent this?

[Shelley]

I thought that was a function of the browser not the website. I choose to have links open in a new tab in options in Firefox. You can choose no to this.

 

Not sure if this is what you mean.

[歐博思]

Idk. But I do know everything on this website will open in the same tab, whereas Baidu for instance always opens a new tab for everything.

[Demonic_Duck]

Yep, this is a pain in the ass (it's not quite as obnoxious as opening a new browser window, but it's close, unless there's a good reason to open a new tab). I don't know of any browser add-ons etc. that can prevent this, though I'd be interested to know if any exist...

[Mouseneb]

Chinese web design preference

[liuzhou]

 

Chinese web design preference

 

I'm not sure it is a preference. Most of my Chinese friends find it just as annoying and pointless. I put it down to programming ignorance.

 

 

I thought that was a function of the browser not the website.

 

No. It is fully under the control of the website authors. Difficult, if not impossible, to override. 

[Demonic_Duck]

I wonder if "programming ignorance" isn't too charitable, and it's not an intentional effort to encourage users to have the site open in the background 24/7, a la Skype's not-closing-when-you-click-the-close-button "feature".

[flow]

this is very obnoxious habit specifically of Chinese websites. it is basically caused by HTML `<a ... target="_blank">` and should entirely be overridable by a Firefox extension or somesuch. there's a good explanation here: http://www.sundoginteractive.com/sunblog/posts/target-blank-is-holding-your-users-hostage

 

i tried this and it does seem to work: in Firefox, open a new tab and type in `about:config` as address, then type `browser.link` and change the settng from `3` to `1`.

[roddy]

Oddly, that's exactly what this very website does (for external links anyway) and nobody's ever mentioned it. 

 

Probably the kind of thing best dealt with by a browser fix anyway.

[Demonic_Duck]

External websites is one thing. It's when it opens another site on the very same website in a new tab for no good reason that it's annoying.

 

Edit: @flow: I love you forever. Perfect, now I only ever have to open a new tab when I want to (and opening a link in a new tab still works just fine with ctrl+click).

[RogerGe]

Is there any way to do this for other browsers?

[DavyJonesLocker]

10 hours ago, RogerGe said:

Is there any way to do this for other browsers?

 

On 12/2/2014 at 7:25 AM, liuzhou said:

No. It is fully under the control of the website authors. Difficult, if not impossible, to override. 

 

Fortunately,  its just a matter of what @flow mentioned above. You can add the Chrome Extension (if you use Google Chrome) "Death To _blank" and it will prevent it. On the left click function the _blank will be removed. Other similar extensions but that one seems fine to me

 

Chinese website design seem to be: more clutter on your desktop the better. The didn't really go with the Google and Apple minimalist approach