Website Links - to Stay or Not to Stay?

Posted: October 18, 2011

[caption id="attachment_8910" align="alignright" width="400"]©KonstantinosKokkinis - Fotolia[/caption]I'm one of those people who gets lost in the link maze. I move from one link to the next so often, I lose the original page I visited and often my train of thought. As a result, I've become a tabs addict. The good news? Tabs addicts save time and their sanity.

If you're like me and get a bit miffed when a website takes you to a different site when you click a hyperlink, without opening a new tab, you're a tabs addict too. Rejoice. There's a trick you need to know, so you don't get lost as you maneuver from link to link, page to page and thought to thought – you can eliminate the problem and force hyperlinks to open in a new page, and thus creating a tab, while keeping you on the original site.

Here's the trick:

Navigate your mouse pointer to the hyperlink of interest
RIGHT click the link
In the window that appears, select open the link in a new tab or new window

Viola... the link of interest opens and the original website remains accessible.

So, open links with reckless abandon and find your inner tab addict. Happy clicking!

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