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> Open other part of your app in new tab. Unless the developers forbid it... and always finding new ways to forbid it...

Man I hate the new web.

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This is more of an old web, and because of bad design: keeping state of the app on server, rather than in the browser (or are you referring to limiting open in new tab?).

But yes, I hate the new web too (sometimes).

I was thinking of web apps like MS Teams that just simply do not allow to open a new tab on click for whatever reason. I can open the app in two windows just fine, but I can't right/middle click on something to tell it to open in new tab. Why would I not want be able to open a Word Online document in a new tab directly?

There are other apps, that are even worse. Allowing something to open in a new tab/window but identifying that there are multiple windows open and just disabling all but the main window...

I don't understand developers that do this. I always felt that multiple tabs is a strength of the web. They worsen it somehow.

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