Open links in new tab not working

[lmel]

Hi,

I have selected ‘open external links in a new tab’ in preferences but it does not work.

When a link is embedded in a comment and I click on it, the link is loaded within the iframe - it does not open a new tab.

All of the anchor tags have target="_blank" - but still they do not open in a new tab.

Can you help?

Thanks

[sigurdur (Sigurður Guðbrandsson)]

Did you refresh (press F5) the page after you changed your preferences?

[lmel]

Just saw the setting in user preferences for" Open all external links in a new tab".

This is currently defaulted to unchecked/off for new users.

Is there a way we can default this setting to checked/on for new users?

[iolo]

This looks like the only solution I’ve found. It would have to be applied to the external_links_in_new_tab field instead.

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