Feature Request: Confluence - external links to open in new browser window

[Sharon Halpin]

Feature Request:

Global option to set external URLs/links to open in a new browser window (target="_blank")

with an option to toggle on/off.

Thank you.

[Rick Westbrock]

Based on this post from three years ago my guess is that we will never see this feature: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-questions/External-link-open-in-new-window-Confluence-cloud/qaq-p/1337135

[Sharon Halpin]

Thank you @Rick Westbrock   

Yes, looking at the thread you linked to it doesn't look very hopeful. 

And yet all links in this Atlassian community open in a new tab so I don't see why this can't be an option in Confluence.

I will just have to remember to 'right-click > open link in a new browser window.'

[mb]

You can just use middle mouse click.

[Rick Westbrock]

Wow, I never knew that was a thing. Thanks for sharing that trick.

[mb]

It also works on page refresh etc… E.g. if u need to open the same Confluence page twice.

[Sharon Halpin]

@mb  ohh that's good to know - thank you!

[Andy Gladstone]

@Sharon Halpin vote here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-65558

[Don Traub]

I really do hope that someone is paying attention to this request. I have been using Jira for several years and it's something that is difficult to habituate to since it is definitely not best practices and so every other platform I work with does open a separate page. I don't know how much total time I have lost, but even if it were only one hour over all of these years, that's an hour I'd like to have back. When I do make the mistake, I go to my recently closed, but I would imagine that not everyone chooses that efficient route. So, I have to imagine that there's a lot of lost time with all of my other team members who are not using this simple process to resolve this pain in the butt.

In any case it would be great if this issue was treated with a higher level priority. I would love it!