Inconsistent behaviour with “Open all external links in a new tab” option

Hello.

This issue has been brought a few times already and I see some PR code fix were also submitted.
Maybe it has worked some times since the fixes.

But at the moment I still have inconsistencies with this “Open all external links in a new tab” option:

As I have this option activated, I expect any external link will open in a new tab.
I don’t have to think that in this or that context I should make a special click to open in a new tab as my regular left click should open all of them in a new tab.

That is how a full time “Open all external links in a new tab” user expects the site to work.


Reproduce the bug

First check “Open all external links in a new tab” option in your interface settings and save.

Then:

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Thanks for the report @jesus2099, it looks like this could be related to our recent click tracking changes. We will look into it

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This should be fixed in https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ca9fd95a08dd6fdfd69a60dbe53ac566be2d31df, thanks for the report.

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