Re^3: _new considered harmful

I know there are ways around it. My point was that it's a dangerous default to overwrite a window one doesn't realize has been overwritten. ( If the current window gets overwritten, I'd just press back and middle-click the link. Overwritting another window, one that might (and likely, in my case) have been open for days, is bad. ) I vote against #1.

By the way, you *can* open a targetted link in the current window. Just drag the link to the address bar.

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Re^4: _new considered harmful by jZed (Prior) on Oct 01, 2006 at 18:19 UTC
I guess I agree about the danger and so retract my solution #1. I'm still interested in #2 however, since your (nice) drag and drop trick (which Hue-Bond also suggested to me) solves opening in the same window but doesn't solve the part I need of opening in a frame in the same window. Oh my gosh! You gave me an idea that solves the problem (on my browser at least) : drag a link from the chat, private messages, or other users frames and drop it into the search box and hit enter ... voila the links from the other frames open in wherever the search is targeted for.	[reply]

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Re^4: _new considered harmful
by jZed (Prior) on Oct 01, 2006 at 18:19 UTC

I guess I agree about the danger and so retract my solution #1. I'm still interested in #2 however, since your (nice) drag and drop trick (which Hue-Bond also suggested to me) solves opening in the same window but doesn't solve the part I need of opening in a frame in the same window.

Oh my gosh! You gave me an idea that solves the problem (on my browser at least) : drag a link from the chat, private messages, or other users frames and drop it into the search box and hit enter ... voila the links from the other frames open in wherever the search is targeted for.

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