by cortesoft 3 days ago
I have always done this, although mostly so I don’t have to reload the page I am coming from when I hit the back button.
Many years ago I was 'converted' to browse like that, one of the reasons was just that - to prevent back-button fatfinger.
Here's the setup I use:
[1] install this userscript, keep the default `include` i.e. 'every link": https://greasyfork.org/scripts/12367-open-links-in-new-tab; add to the `exclude` section the sites from [2].
[2] install this one and turn OFF the default: https://greasyfork.org/scripts/4416-open-links-in-current-ta...; add any sites you want to stay in the same tab to the `include` section (e.g. see [0]). Depending on how you browse, this will be a small list.
You can couple this with a tab-memory addon: example-- set [1]-Tabs to 'sleep' after a certain time; that way they're not using resources but still available later.
AND if you decide you're not gonna read those tabs anyway, just manually close them with having to activate them.
This too. Particularly required for broken SPA-style sites that reset when you re-enter instead of properly maintaining their state, or infinite scroll based pages that don't remember where you scrolled to/through.