Solved right click "open in new tab" for favorites broken in Edge 129.0.2792.52

bobkn · Sep 25, 2024

I guess I won't try to revert, in the hope that MS fixes it soon.

Berton · Sep 25, 2024

I'm on the same version but I don't use Edge much, mostly for things on the widgets, and don't know where I should see what you asked about.

antspants · Sep 25, 2024

Yes, apparently you’re not the only one to notice this. If it was on purpose, stupid, if it’s a bug, like you said they’ll most likely fix it soon. Just keep it updated.

bobkn · Sep 26, 2024

Berton said:
I'm on the same version but I don't use Edge much, mostly for things on the widgets, and don't know where I should see what you asked about.

Go to open a Favorite.

Right click on it and select "open in new tab".

The option is now grayed out.

I know that most people don't use Edge, but I prefer its interface.

dacrone · Sep 26, 2024

while you wait for a fix, you can do one of these 3:
Ctrl+left click
Shift+left click
right click the fav > copy > open new tab and Paste & Go

antspants · Sep 26, 2024

And middle click I believe.

glasskuter · Sep 26, 2024

This is strange. I hadn't noticed it not working from the favorites menu because I rarely use it. I work from folders on the favorites bar. It makes no sense but right click and open in new tab does still work there. However, it won't switch focus to that tab but it never has since MS took that option away.

If I open the favorites list and right click on a link, it is grayed out.

But I noticed something else, too. I have my middle mouse button programmed with {Ctrl}{LMB} (Thats Control key +left mouse button.) That middle button was programmed to compensate when MS removed the option in Edge to set links to open in new tab and switch focus. The same goes for Firefox. Using FF, I could click on a link just with middle button, it opens link in new tab and switch focus to it. However, in Edge I had to SHIFT+middle mouse button to get the same behavior when clicking on any link, anywhere. This method is still working no matter where I click on a link, including the favorites list..

It's only working from the context menu method that seems to be screwed up.
EDIT: This info is not 100% correct. See post #12 for accurate information.

Torus · Sep 26, 2024

If you make the favourites bar visible then this isn't a problem for some reason. This seems to be a design choice - odd maybe - rather than a bug.

Edwin · Sep 26, 2024

... Or, Drag-N-Drop...

Berton · Sep 26, 2024

There's actually 3 dimmed Open...... choices there.

Right-click of the star at the top of the list has more choices, most of which I would never use.

Almighty1 · Sep 26, 2024

Broken in Stable but working in Canary. Mentioned here:

Redirecting

I have submitted a report to MSFT on it from EDGE.

glasskuter · Sep 26, 2024

Thank you @Almighty. Your answer rang my bell and made me realize that I wasn't paylng close attention in my testing where I thought adding Shift +middle button programmed as CTRL+LMB was opening in a new tab and shifting focus to is actually opening a new window and shifting focus to it. So I will correct my earlier post. This same behavior happens when I do not use the middle button at all.

So I've spent an half an hour hour checking all this and verifying I wrote it down correctly this time, and folks, MS has screwed the pooch bigtime on this one. I don't know how users are expected to know what result they witll get depending on where they are working from. Using only the left right mouse buttons for testing, here's what I found.

Almighty1 · Sep 26, 2024

Problem mentioned in this thread fixed in Microsoft EDGE Stable v129.0.2792.65.

bobkn · Sep 26, 2024

Almighty1 said:
Problem mentioned in this thread fixed in Microsoft EDGE Stable v129.0.2792.65.

(snip)

Just did the update. Yep, fixed.

Berton · Sep 26, 2024

Just opened Edge and it was already at 66% updated. Let it finish and problem resolved.

glasskuter · Sep 27, 2024

The way Edge handles links has never made sense to me. so to keep my mind straight I re-wrote that little chart I posted earlier. If anyone is interested this new chart tells you what reaction we will get after the latest Edge update when we use our mouse button alone and with other control keyboard keys.
The result is different depending on where in the Edge interface you click. Has no rhyme or reason to it at all. You have to scroll to see it all.
I don't know why it uploaded so large. I messed up somewhere.

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