Web bookmarks are part of our tech life since 1993, sort-of. They usually come in a couple of shapes: they live in a menu, or they live in a bar.
I’m mostly for the bookmark bar arrangement. Something like this:
The usage is simple as a click: you click it, the website opens in the current tab and that’s the main issue for me. I like the bookmark to open in a new tab.
Press and click
If you are the kind of person that is fine with pressing a key and then click, you are good to go. You can press Cmd (or Ctrl) and click on the bookmark: it will open in a new tab.
Only one click
If you are like me, you can’t remember the whole Cmd or Ctrl or whatever thing and, systematically, 9 out of 10 times, you are just gonna
- click the thing
- realize it’s opening in the same tab
- yell at clouds
- go back
- press Cmd or Ctrl or whatever it is and click to open the bookmark in a new tab.
Some time ago, I looked for a solution that would allow me to just click the damn thing and have it open in a new tab.
Let’s do this!
Navigate to you website and press Cmd + D to bookmark it.
Click “More” and you will get a dialog like this:
Before saving it, focus on the URL field and wrap the content in
javascript:window.open("WEBSITE_URL");
The example with Google would look like this:
Save and enjoy your single-click-open-in-a-new-tab bookmark 😃
