Neil Turner offers 5 reasons why you should Beware of Opening Links in a New Window then offers a number of suggesting for dealing with this issue. His arguments are compelling and the bottom line is that if you are setting links on your site to open new windows, so people supposedly will not leave your website, you should remember that if you irritate them they are even more likely to leave than they would otherwise be. As Turner says, ultimately compelling content is going to be the thing that engages your readers to engage with your site longer, and directing them to a new window is no shortcut to this sort of engagement.
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Didn’t stop them from trying to open a popup window tho’ did it?
Thankfully Firefox blocked it.