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GGJstudios

macrumors Westmere
Original poster
May 16, 2008
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OK, I'm having a "senior moment" here. I've searched because I could swear this has come up before, but I can't find it. Until today, clicking a link in Forum Spy would open that thread or user profile in a new tab in Safari, but would leave the Forum Spy thread as the active tab. Today, every time I click a thread or user name in Forum Spy, it opens in a new tab, but switches focus to that tab. I vaguely remember a setting somewhere to stop that behavior, but I can't find it. As always, I've logged out and back in, reset Safari, etc. before posting this. My relevant settings:
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arn

macrumors god
Staff member
Apr 9, 2001
16,363
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OK, I'm having a "senior moment" here. I've searched because I could swear this has come up before, but I can't find it. Until today, clicking a link in Forum Spy would open that thread or user profile in a new tab in Safari, but would leave the Forum Spy thread as the active tab. Today, every time I click a thread or user name in Forum Spy, it opens in a new tab, but switches focus to that tab. I vaguely remember a setting somewhere to stop that behavior, but I can't find it. As always, I've logged out and back in, reset Safari, etc. before posting this. My relevant settings:

strange. We didn't change anything on our side.

arn
 

GGJstudios

macrumors Westmere
Original poster
May 16, 2008
44,545
943
strange. We didn't change anything on our side.

arn
After changing settings back and forth, saving changes, refreshing the Spy page, all multiple times, it's still doing the same thing. All other sites behave as they always did.
 

SandboxGeneral

Moderator emeritus
Sep 8, 2010
26,482
10,051
Detroit
That behavior has always been that way for me since I've been coming to MR. It happens on Safari, Firefox and Firefox for Windows in my experience. If you've had it different, you must have customized your browser in some manner.
 
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