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Aunt Spiker

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Anyone else dealing with this? Anytime I click forum-spawned links (like the quote notifications) it opens a new tab. Some routine forum cruising can quickly fill up my tab bar.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Anyone else dealing with this? Anytime I click forum-spawned links (like the quote notifications) it opens a new tab. Some routine forum cruising can quickly fill up my tab bar.
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Best solution: Simply close unneeded or unused tabs as you go along.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Best solution: Simply close unneeded or unused tabs as you go along.
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Yeah - and irritating is an understatement. It didn't do it before - just started a few weeks ago so I'm not sure what's really going on.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Anyone else dealing with this? Anytime I click forum-spawned links (like the quote notifications) it opens a new tab. Some routine forum cruising can quickly fill up my tab bar.
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I have a similar problem although for me it opens up only one new tab no matter how many notifications I access. The bigger problem for me, since I almost never notice the new tab opening, is when I sign out of DP the original tab doesn't seem to get the message and it will come back a few seconds later and give me an error message box telling me I don't have authorization to perform that task, even though I wasn't performing a DP task. I simply just close that original tab and move on.

These are not problems per se, but simply little annoyances that weren't there in the previous iteration of the software.
 
CanadaJohn said:
I have a similar problem although for me it opens up only one new tab no matter how many notifications I access. The bigger problem for me, since I almost never notice the new tab opening, is when I sign out of DP the original tab doesn't seem to get the message and it will come back a few seconds later and give me an error message box telling me I don't have authorization to perform that task, even though I wasn't performing a DP task. I simply just close that original tab and move on.

These are not problems per se, but simply little annoyances that weren't there in the previous iteration of the software.
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Mine has always opened a new tab. It could be a setting on your computer (somewhere - those settings can be difficult to find)
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Anyone else dealing with this? Anytime I click forum-spawned links (like the quote notifications) it opens a new tab. Some routine forum cruising can quickly fill up my tab bar.
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That's a brouser setting "open link in new tab". You can also have your brouser "open link in new window" if you want.

Just change your brouser setting back to not open a new tab for links.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Mine has always opened a new tab. It could be a setting on your computer (somewhere - those settings can be difficult to find)
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I don't know - I can't remember - short term memory loss or alzheimers, who knows - I think the upgrade happened before I got the new Windows 10 and so the change in the DP software is what changed the new tabs appearing and not any change made to my computer settings/system. I use Firefox so it could be the way the new DP software interacts with Firefox or maybe something changed with Firefox which has upgraded recently too.

I don't know - I'm pretty much computer illiterate and just hope it works when I press the start button.
 
CanadaJohn said:
I don't know - I can't remember - short term memory loss or alzheimers, who knows - I think the upgrade happened before I got the new Windows 10 and so the change in the DP software is what changed the new tabs appearing and not any change made to my computer settings/system. I use Firefox so it could be the way the new DP software interacts with Firefox or maybe something changed with Firefox which has upgraded recently too.

I don't know - I'm pretty much computer illiterate and just hope it works when I press the start button.
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In firefox go to Tools---->options----------->General (comes up as first page)-------------under "tabs" check or uncheck how you want tabs to behave.
 
Chagos said:
In firefox go to Tools---->options----------->General (comes up as first page)-------------under "tabs" check or uncheck how you want tabs to behave.
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Thank you sir - I gave it a try and we'll see how it goes.
 
Chagos said:
In firefox go to Tools---->options----------->General (comes up as first page)-------------under "tabs" check or uncheck how you want tabs to behave.
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I did as you suggested, however, it doesn't change what happens except for the fact that the extra tab created is now hidden and only pops up when I sign out. It appears not to be related to Firefox.
 
CanadaJohn said:
I did as you suggested, however, it doesn't change what happens except for the fact that the extra tab created is now hidden and only pops up when I sign out. It appears not to be related to Firefox.
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You sure it's not an extra window? Meaning two Firefox windows being open, one over the other?
 
Chagos said:
You sure it's not an extra window? Meaning two Firefox windows being open, one over the other?
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No, it wasn't two windows because I didn't open two separate DP windows at the same time. I wouldn't ever have reason to do that.

I've changed it back to the way it was - it wasn't really a problem for me, just a minor inconvenience that I can live with.

Thanks for your help though.
 
CanadaJohn said:
No, it wasn't two windows because I didn't open two separate DP windows at the same time. I wouldn't ever have reason to do that.

I've changed it back to the way it was - it wasn't really a problem for me, just a minor inconvenience that I can live with.

Thanks for your help though.
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You're welcome.

Just as a heads up: when you uncheck the box "open new window in a new tab instead", that option is obviously disabled. So any link you click will open firefox (again) automatically.

But whatever, if you can live with how it was, so much the better.
 
Well on the OP: the situation persisted until just recently.

Now when I click on anything through the 'notifications' window (Quote or Like) it doesn't open a new tab.

Thanks for fixing it :)
 
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