# “Open all external links in a new tab” option does not work for protocol agnostic links

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/open-all-external-links-in-a-new-tab-option-does-not-work-for-protocol-agnostic-links/42224
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [April 8, 2016, 6:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/open-all-external-links-in-a-new-tab-option-does-not-work-for-protocol-agnostic-links/42224 "2016-04-08T06:58:00Z")
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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/open-all-external-links-in-a-new-tab-option-does-not-work-for-protocol-agnostic-links/42224/23 "2016-04-11T19:59:49Z")

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Ok, let’s see how hard this one is 😉

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**EDIT:** Just pushed a fix

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6ee11adf58d247d004ed838520d99281ce6426cb](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6ee11adf58d247d004ed838520d99281ce6426cb)

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