Request: Force "open in new tab"

[TiddlyTweeter]

Very nice bit of work! FWIW I have used both "Feedly" and "The Old Reader", as well as feed readers now long forgotten. I like the minimalism of your approach a lot. Also great that it can make sense of TiddlyWiki! Very useful for TiddlyWiki enthusiasts to be able to track when stuff in releases change.

My request is simple: when you click on an item that it opens in a new tab rather than replacing the Fraidycat tab. (FYI, I on Chrome latest on Win)

Best wishes, TT

[kickscondor]

Also great that it can make sense of TiddlyWiki! Very useful for TiddlyWiki enthusiasts to be able to track when stuff in releases change.

I am a huge TiddlyWiki fan as well - what can I say? 🥰

For now you can middle-click on the link to open a new tab. I am conflicted about making this change and would like to put it to a vote. I could go either way. I just don't want to bug people with new tabs opening! Thank you for bringing this up.

[bmann]

I'm voting for this, too. I have Fraidycat as a "pinned tab" -- and if I don't remember to click-to-open-in-new-tab, then I lose the tab.

I think Fraidycat needs to be thought of more like an app -- you want to be able to navigate back to it.

Thanks for your work on FC!

[bignimbus]

I prefer opening a link in the same window/tab by default. Maybe this is a feature that could be configurable in the settings?

[kickscondor]

Thankyou all for your thoughts so far. I'm going to address this in the 1.2.0 redesign, but if anyone else wants to chime in, please do.

[manmademagic]

I'll chime in too, just because I've probably got a unique-ish use case.

I've got a custom new tab page where I've trapped fraidycat in an iframe. (Just a context-sensitive navbar really)

Unfortunately, some sites don't like being in iframes as much as fraidycat does:

I think having a configurable option would be the nicest way to handle this, as that'll give flexibility for people like me, who like to over-complicate things.

[kickscondor]

This is coming. See #153 for the main discussion - although I am fine keeping this open, because it's subtly different.

The idea is to offer a way of customizing the click event on individual link or blog titles - send this to vlc, send this to Pocket, open this in a new tab. But this won't be coming until Fraidycat 2 - which I am still trying to plan out.

[agichim]

I vote for links opening in a new tab. My UX behaviour (and I think for most) is like this:

• I use middle-click consistently on links which navigate within the same website, I am conscious I need to use middle-click
• Fraidycat has the UX feel of an app where you expect to click on a link and have a new tab open, so it's not an issue of not knowing to use middle-click. Especially considering Fraidycat's content points to other areas of the web and not within Fraidycat.

In a funny way, when I'd left-click on a link I'd think "Fraidycat doesn't want me to use Fraidycat" because it keeps "self-closing" itself when opening links, haha.

[kickscondor]

This is actually kinda in the latest release: (last item in the menu here)

However, the pull request I merged doesn't change the title links as well. So... look for next release.