# Behaviour of external links for not logged-in visitors

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/behaviour-of-external-links-for-not-logged-in-visitors/14459>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** pr-welcome\
**Created:** [Abril 4, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/behaviour-of-external-links-for-not-logged-in-visitors/14459 "2014-04-04T14:07:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![arajvanshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@arajvanshi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/arajvanshi)\
**Post date:** [Abril 4, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/behaviour-of-external-links-for-not-logged-in-visitors/14459/1 "2014-04-04T14:07:49Z")

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I selected the setting default\_external\_links\_in\_new\_tab in the admin area. This resulted in the expected behaviour of setting default preference of all new users set to ‘open external links in new tab’.

However, for non-logged-in visitors, the behaviour is still the old one, it is opening the external links in the same tab leading visitors to go away from the website. When admin selects the default\_external\_links\_in\_new\_tab setting, it should change the behaviour for non-logged-in visitors as well.

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