My First Poll!!

[zrath]

[Poll #946670]

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I cheat - I use the world's most elegant browser, OmniWeb 5. So I just check the "open new windows as a new tab", avoiding spawning new windows all over the place. ^_^

(Actually, for that entry, I just did "Save all linked images" - much easier that way. Easy is good =:)

So I think my full answer would be either (a) like, whatever, dude, or (b) a zip file.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

I can explicitly force links to open in a tab if I want, in SeaMonkey (Gods, why didn't they just keep calling it Mozilla... c.c) but people overuse the ability to open links in new windows, I think. It's okay when it's done for a good reason, but there are few good reasons to usurp my ability to use my forward/back buttons at will, and most uses of it are not appropriate in my opinion. I would consider its use in a link from LJ to be barely appropriate at best.

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

It depends on context. I, and the various communities whov'e used my software, often find it useful to have a small pop up window open for help on various web-apps. That's one context where they're good. Otherwise, I think you should keep it in the window and let the user decide if they want to override.

[snapes-angel.livejournal.com]

Tab? What, no Pepsi?

My system refuses to download the Windows thing, but FireFox works well for me--Opera, not so well, but at least it's a backup for when FireFox gets temperamental.

I have to leave some tabs oen anyway, like for Y-Groups, because I'm the Dictator Pro Tem moderator/listowner of several Yahoo groups where I moderate all new members, and noe group in particular get s lot of spam, so I moderate all new members.