[Sigia-l] Usability of launching new browser window?

[m o r r y]

As a user I immensely like when an outside link opens in a new browser
 window and the rationale presented in the link below that it "breaks" the
 back button doesn't persuade me.  The whole reason I like the new window is
 exactly because I don't want to use the back button. Back is great if you
 have to go back one or two or MAYBE three windows but at the end of the day
 it's always much easier and quicker for ME to close the new browser window
 (one action) and there I'm back to the place I started.  It's rare that I
 ever follow an outside link only to one page. Often times I go deeper and
 deeper and sometimes follow more outside links at that point it becomes
 dizzying and a useless waste of time to hit the back key 20 times, for
 example.

 The one drawback I have found is that there is no consistency on the issue
 and over the years I've gotten used to just clicking my mouse to open a new
 browser window which doesn't always work if the link is already set to
 target to a new window.

Incidentally I've heard users complain over and over on a wide spectrum of
client sites about the very fact that they are expected to hit the back
button to get back or they complain that it's annoying to have to click the
right mouse button (on a Windows envrionment) and they want a simple
solution.  Responses to new browswer windows were favorable but still not an
overwhelming concensus.

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