# External Links not opening in new tab

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/external-links-not-opening-in-new-tab/50092>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2016 年 9 月 13 日午後 4:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/external-links-not-opening-in-new-tab/50092 "2016-09-13T16:53:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [2019 年 4 月 27 日午前 4:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/external-links-not-opening-in-new-tab/50092/30 "2019-04-27T04:28:50Z")

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The site settings that you show above set the setting for **new** users. To see how it works, create a new account.

Having links open in a new tab is an accessibility problem. If you can’t see, it’s confusing to click a link and not be able to tell what happened. That’s why the default is off.

If you want to change the setting for existing users you can search here for a rails command that will change the value for all existing users.

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