Safari 4 Beta + Digg.com = Frustration

Posted by John on Feb 27, 2009 in Mac Stuff, Technolust |

So of course I went out and downloaded the new Safari 4 Beta as soon as it came out (you should too), but encountered a serious issue right off the bat.

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I am a serious fan of digg.com and noticed right away that Safari 4 was opening all of the links from Digg in a ‘New Window’ instead of in a ‘New Tab’. This might not sound like a huge deal, but for me it was going to be a Safari killer. Turns out this can be fixed easily (although I only have the fix for Mac at this point):

 

 

 

Here’s the fix via a digg comment from TheMagnificen7 TheMagnificen7

Post: Safari 4: Eye Candy or Seriously Useful?

“Try this in terminal in Mac OS X

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

If you are using Windows, I’m not sure if there is a work-around.”

It worked for me (I had to restart Safari after running the command) and now all my clicks open links in new tabs rather than new windows.

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