Discussion on _blank Must Die | Userscripts.org

Opera and remove_blank.css, replied by NV

NV — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:31:54 +0000

I've made remove_blank.css about year ago. It's just CSS, not JavaScript. Works only in Opera.

Firefox and browser.link.open_newwindow, replied by NV

NV — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:25:42 +0000

about:config browser.link.open_newwindow=1 does the same as your script.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_new...

_blank Must Die For Google Apps, replied by Max Kueng

Max Kueng — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:36:07 +0000

Thanks, cl3m!

_blank Must Die For Google Apps, replied by cl3m

cl3m — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:03:52 +0000

I've made a small hack that kill _blank in Google Apps as well so you can switch between Gmail, Calendar & Docs without new window/tab.

At http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/49234

Cheers

Archived Comments, replied by tanpantsman

tanpantsman — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:53:09 +0000

This is awesome, love it, thank you so much!

-Tanpantsman

Archived Comments, replied by nascent

nascent — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:01:11 +0000

I've been happy with this script for over a year now. Thank you.

Archived Comments, replied by Hibria

Hibria — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:13:41 +0000

Fixed the annoying blank tabs from clicking forum attachment links. Many thanks for creating this script!

Archived Comments, replied by Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:50:06 +0000

Nice script, works perfectly. Cheers.

Archived Comments, replied by Max Kueng

Max Kueng — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:40:13 +0000

Jeremy Kitchen, you're right. Firefox offers to choose between opening a new tab or a new window but it doesn't let you ignore the target attribute. So you can't open the link in the active tab, which sometimes is what I want to do. Giving you full control over windows and tabs is actually the web developer's job (just don't use the target attribute).

Archived Comments, replied by Jeremy Kitchen

Jeremy Kitchen — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:07:44 +0000

Is this even necessary? Firefox already has functionality built in to ignore links attempting to open in new windows.

Forgive my ignorance :)

Archived Comments, replied by Johan Sundström

Johan Sundström — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:45:28 +0000

Actually, those values are not invalid; it just tells the links to open in a _specific_ window or frame; any other link set to open in the same target will update the location of that window or frame. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4403 drops _all_ link target attributes that do not have a corresponding frame in the present frameset.

Archived Comments, replied by Max Kueng

Max Kueng — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:09:34 +0000

I've updated the script to version 1.3 which now also matches "_newwin" and "newwin". Thanks landstander!

Archived Comments, replied by landstander

landstander — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:40:07 +0000

Hmmm... didn't realize that the URL would be filtered out of my post. Please email me at spikey.mcmarbles@gmail.com if any additional information is required.

Archived Comments, replied by landstander

landstander — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:14:50 +0000

Great script, but it should also filter out the "newWin" attribute... check out <http://www.mikeacrossamerica.com/photo.html> if you need an example. After updating the regexp to "/^(_blank|blank|_new|new|newwin|_neu|neu)$/i", this page is handled as expected. Thanx!

Archived Comments, replied by mar 1

mar 1 — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:20:00 +0000

Would it be possible to update the script to work on pages that use 'base target="_blank"' in them?

Archived Comments, replied by morgan 1

morgan 1 — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:38:55 +0000

thanks wayne!

Archived Comments, replied by Max Kueng

Max Kueng — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:01:48 +0000

I've updated the script. It does now completely remove the target attribute instead of changing the value to "_self" and I've changed the way the RegExp thing was done (thanks WayneD).

Archived Comments, replied by Max Kueng

Max Kueng — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:16:22 +0000

Thank you, WayneD! I'll have a look at this. But, in my opinion, the parentheses are not really required as long as I'm not using subpatterns, right?

Archived Comments, replied by WayneD

WayneD — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:39:33 +0000

I neglected to mention that the script's use of "new RegExp()" is also wrong since it is trying to embed /.../i syntax inside the string. The easiest solution is to switch to the non-"new" style:

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var regTarget = /^(_blank|blank|_new|new|_neu|neu)$/i;
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The other solution is to remove the "/" and the "/i" from the string passed to "new RegExp()" and add an trailing parameter of ",'i'" to get case to be ignored.

Archived Comments, replied by WayneD

WayneD — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:46:02 +0000

The regular expression used in the code is missing some needed parentheses. It currently looks like this:

/^_blank|blank|_new|new|_neu|neu$/i

and it should look like this:

/^(_blank|blank|_new|new|_neu|neu)$/i

Archived Comments, replied by Jonatron

Jonatron — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:59:41 +0000

Also http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1349

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:05:12 +0000

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