iShoutbox..link to iShoutbox.com opens in same page (Firefox)

[salsanl]

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When clicked on the smiley (right-upper corner) with the link to ishoutbox.com
then when using Firefox it will open ishoutbox.com in the same page as my own page
where the ishoutbox is on.

Of course that is unwanted bahaviour..since i will lose my visitor...and my page is gone.

This does not happen in IE7 or IE8 ...only in FF

Can you repair this ?

Maybe this is a setting in Firefox itself....but i have FF settings as they are by default
many others will have that also.


Thanks

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[Adonis]

I have just tested it in my Firefox, and it just opens a new tab in the same FireFox window. It does not overwrite the tab where the shoutbox is on.

You will probably experience this behaviour in all websites that have links to external pages, where IE opens those links in a new window. In Firefox, it will (by default) open a new tab in the same window. It can be changed in the browser settings, but as you said, people usually leave their settings on default.

So, since this (opening in a new tab) is a browser setting issue, there is nothing i can do to fix that through the shoutbox code.

[salsanl]

Thanks for your quick reply.

In practice this means that i will lose visitors
which is not a very positive point to have iShout on my page.

Can you not force a "open a new page" in your code ?

I have other gadgets on my page that do open in a new page in FF
also my own links do open in a new page (cause i made them as such).

Actually i dont understand why you can not make you code to open in a new page
In Firefox...i have verified it again and again...but i have many links on my own website
and i have programmed (HTML) them to open in a new page..and that works...in FF !
while at the sametime the link to you dont open in a new page.

So this is NOT a browser-issue so
i can only conclude that you have not programmed it to do that.

If you can not solve that..but i think you can 
Then alternatively i could do a small modification to the iShout box
which is to place a new smiley over yours..and let that link to you (in a new page)
but then i would have to lots of tricks to keep it there (needs additional page/scrolling problem...etc)

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[salsanl]

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I verified again:

In Firefox i could not find an option to set or unset opening in a new page
all i find is a choice to either "'Open in new Tab" or ""Open in new Window"
which are both new browserscreens..so if you coded it to open in a new browser-screen
then it should do that..but it DIDN'T

Yes i say DIDN'T ... because i just tried again and now it works like it should
it now opens in a new browser-screen.

Have you changed that today ?

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[allyours]

I'm not sure what your own problem is with this. I just tested this out with my FF. It opened a new window not take over the window I have the iShoutbox. I looked at my FF settings and saw that mine is to open in new window. If it's default is for new tab I rest my options for that. It did indeed open in a new tab. I was never taken away from my home page, only new browser windows or tabs.

My FF version:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100202 Firefox/3.5.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

EDIT:
I see you posted again while I was typing. 

[salsanl]

@ allyours

We were posting at the same time
I dont know what happened...either the iShout code was changed today
or some magic has taken place...or i must have been on mushrooms yesterday 
anyway it works fine now.

Thanks !

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[Adonis]

I did not change anything yesterday. It is, like i said, a browser setting. The HTML (<a href>) part that defines the opening of a new window is:

target="_new"

If there is a better way to open a new window in Firefox, even if Firefox is set to open it in a new tab, then let me know

[allyours]

target="_new"

If there is a better way to open a new window in Firefox, even if Firefox is set to open it in a new tab, then let me know

I'm not saying it's better but I've always used target="_blank". Having said that, I see no reason to change what you've done anyway. If I've ever had a problem with opening new windows from the shoutbox it was with the chat4all. The problem wasn't opening then new window but what happened after. Even that wasn't a 'real' problem. Here's what would happen.

A link would be posted or I'd click the link at the bottom that took me to chat4all.
After reading or doing a few things from that window, I'd use the same window to browse other places like my Hotmail or whatever.
Keeping the above mentioned window open I'd click another (different) link in the chat4all shoutbox and that link would overtake where I was last from the same window I left that had been originally opened by the chat4all.

If that's the difference in "_new" and "_blank" then my preference is "_blank". I've never tested or investigated the difference.

Let me ammend what I've said here. I have used "new" but usually in javascript.
 

[Adonis]

Hmm, yes _blank would be more correct maybe, but the behaviour is the same.

The other problem you have has to do with the window ID. When you open a window through a link, an ID is assigned to it. When you browse other sites with that window, and then do the exact same from that same window, it will use the same ID again. I have no idea why, but that should be a browser thing.