valleylynn said:Did it run away with you woofie?
It could give a person whiplash.

Sharon said:Nap, I do things mostly on automatic and for the life of me I couldn't remember what the middle click did. Of course I have no real middle click but I do have a little bumpy thing in the front middle of the mouse so I clicked. Superimposed over my existing screen I now have a d/m/y calendar, a thermometer, a calculator, and a clock. It goes away when I take my finger away from the little bumpy thing.

I really do wish it would let me scroll fast, but iMacs don't seem to have a go fast button, except for searching.

I do love the choices we now have with tabs and pages here.

Sharon it sounds like you pulled up your dashboard. Is that what you pulled up?

Yup!! I'm so glad you understand, Steph!!
Everybody would have thought I was in my car if I'd said 'dashboard' out loud!

Getting back to the original topic of this thread......how come when I click on an advertisement, it doesn't open in a new tab/window? Many of the other links now open in a separate tab for me, but not the ads. Why is that?

No idea.

Dave?

I don't have control over that, actually. The ads are completely controlled by Google and they have them set to open in the same window. Google says:

Generally, it is our policy to not allow Google ads to open in a new window. However, in a few markets, including China, we've found that opening ads in a new window better aligns with expected internet behavior and provides a more consistent, intuitive user experience.

Keeping in mind the importance of the user experience, we've enabled Google ads to open in new windows in locations where this is expected browsing behavior. This functionality is determined by the IP of the user, and is not an option you can select your AdSense account.

We also ask that you don't modify the AdSense ad code or alter the result of clicking on an ad on your website, as such behavior violates our program policies.

So, they open depending on where in the world you are located, and I'm not allowed to modify the behavior of the ads.

Well, now, isn't that interesting! Not really a problem, I was just curious. Thanks for the information!

dave said:Okay, this is done. You will notice the default behavior is to open the tabs in new windows. For those of you who despise this behavior like I do can go into your site preferences (under profile) and change it.

Saw this late and appreciate you're not ramming it down out throats giving us options.