Lemmy Plugins and Userscripts

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A general repository for user scripts and plugins used to enhance the Lemmy browsing experience.

Post (or cross-post) your favorite Lemmy enhancements here!

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Force external links to open in a new tab (greasyfork.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/plugins

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I put this together based on another very similar script (attributed, of course) I found on beehaw that forces external links to open in a new tab. Should work on every Lemmy instance by checking the header. While it uses http*://*/* as the match, it only executes any logic if the isLemmy check returns true.

Honestly, this has improved my desktop experience significantly, it was killing me before.

Hope it helps, feedback/suggestions/contributions welcome!

git link: https://github.com/Djones4822/GM-Lemmy-newTab

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[–] Dogeek 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just so you know I've been working on adding that functionality into lemmy for the past couple of days, as a user setting.

[–] Yetix 2 points 1 year ago

I'm glad someone is taking care of this. My first post on Lemmy, to thank you! (I have always hated the way links were handled in Reddit. IMO the user experience was pretty bad.)

[–] Hanabie 2 points 1 year ago

Gonna try this out when I get home. Thank you, this has been bothering me.

[–] mershed_perderders 2 points 1 year ago

downloaded and installed! Noice!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

thanks you ! this should be a native a settings in lemmy.