pne: A picture of a plush toy, halfway between a duck and a platypus, with a green body and a yellow bill and feet. (Default)
[personal profile] pne

I can’t ctrl-click links (to open in a new background tab) reliably on my LiveJournal friends page any more.

I suspect this is related to the new JavaScript link-munging that LiveJournal does for affiliates (see [livejournal.com profile] no_lj_ads for details)—that somewhere in the munging, a request is made and my browser forgets that I’m holding Ctrl down and opens the link in the current tab instead of in a new one. (And really, I shouldn’t have to keep holding Ctrl down; it should remember that it was down when I clicked the link, even if it takes a while to perform the request etc.)

Annoying.

Seeing this most in Chrome, where I don’t think I can AdBlock the script. (Since its AdBlock only does things after the fact; it doesn’t—AFAIK—stop the browser from fetching and acting on content.)

…and even holding down Ctrl doesn’t work: Ctrl+click, wait wait wait wait (while nothing visible happens)… and eventually, the current page gets replaced by what I clicked on.

Right-click and “open in new tab” works, but that’s very annoying.

…though the right-click menu takes a perceptible fraction of a second to appear. Is the script firing for every mouse-up event on links, not just for primary-mouse-button-up?

At any rate, it’s long enough to “break the flow”, even if it’s sometimes under a second. Sometimes, though, definitely more than a second. For a right-click menu! That shouldn’t need anything but built-in browser behaviour! Seriously, folks!

Annoying annoying annoying.

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010 09:20 (UTC)
foxfirefey: A fox colored like flame over an ornately framed globe (Default)
From: [personal profile] foxfirefey
I'd recommend you report this to Support in a (very) polite (it's not their fault LJ did this) and descriptive fashion.

From descriptions I've heard, the script wants to replace the URL before a right click, so that if you copy/paste the URL, you paste the one with the affiliate ID.

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010 09:23 (UTC)
yvi: Kaylee half-smiling, looking very pretty (Default)
From: [personal profile] yvi
From descriptions I've heard, the script wants to replace the URL before a right click, so that if you copy/paste the URL, you paste the one with the affiliate ID.

Oh my, that is one further level of annoyance right there.

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010 09:32 (UTC)
foxfirefey: A fox colored like flame over an ornately framed globe (Default)
From: [personal profile] foxfirefey
Yeah, but note it's something that I've read about, not something I've done the legwork to document and verify.

I mean, knowing about this stuff is still somewhat a hobby of mine, but I have more rewarding and engaging hobbies (cough cough DW) that kind of steal some of my urge to pursue things like this to the fullest.

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010 09:33 (UTC)
yvi: Kaylee half-smiling, looking very pretty (Default)
From: [personal profile] yvi
*nods* I am not good at 'reading' these scripts, so we'll see what comes out of that.

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010 09:57 (UTC)
yvi: Faith, text: "Yea, right" (Buffy - Faith "Yea Right")
From: [personal profile] yvi
Sarcasm? What sarcasm?

*headdesks*

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010 09:33 (UTC)
foxfirefey: A fox colored like flame over an ornately framed globe (Default)
From: [personal profile] foxfirefey
Considering all the different descriptions I've head about what it does/doesn't do, I suspect the implementation ends up doing different things in different browsers.

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010 09:36 (UTC)
foxfirefey: A fox colored like flame over an ornately framed globe (Default)
From: [personal profile] foxfirefey
Yes, exactly--if you complain politely, you could help give them numbers that would indicate a problem needing to be fixed.

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010 10:36 (UTC)
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)
From: [personal profile] afuna
I did not know that! Youch :-(

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010 09:55 (UTC)
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)
From: [personal profile] afuna
Oh ow :( Are you aware of the opt out? Not sure if you know about it -- that should prevent the script from loading at all, as long as you're logged into your own account.

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010 10:35 (UTC)
afuna: Cat under a blanket. Text: "Cats are just little people with Fur and Fangs" (Default)
From: [personal profile] afuna
Hm, the one I'm aware of is http://antumbral.dreamwidth.org/164338.html?format=light.

no_lj_ads might be http://community.livejournal.com/no_lj_ads/87881.html

And yeah, that will "solve" it for yourself. Best wishes ♥

Date: Friday, 23 April 2010 14:28 (UTC)
janinedog: (Default)
From: [personal profile] janinedog
Yeah, I recommend opting out. Another option, if your mouse has one, is to use the middle mouse button. That's what I always use to open links in new windows--it's just one click.

Date: Saturday, 24 April 2010 06:52 (UTC)
synecdochic: torso of a man wearing jeans, hands bound with belt (Default)
From: [personal profile] synecdochic
Oh, man, I'd wondered what was causing that. I've used the opt out, even, and I'm still having problems.

Date: Saturday, 24 April 2010 14:59 (UTC)
jonquil: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jonquil
I highly recommend the Restore Context Menu bookmarklet for situations such as these.

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html

(Asshats.)

(edit: And then use right-mouse to open in new window.)
Edited Date: Saturday, 24 April 2010 15:00 (UTC)

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