Setting for opening links

[stkjj]

right now Station opens a link in a seperate window of it's own. Right click allows additionally for "Open Link in new page" and "Open Link in default browser":

An additional setting to chose any of these as default behavior (esp. with the link being opened in the background without leaving Station) would be helpful to gather info in Station from various sources and to dive deeper later in open browser tabs.

[NithyaMenon]

I was just going to raise the same issue,+1 on this 👍

[libroraptor]

Another +1 from me. Also ctrl-click or cmd-click to open in the not-usual browser.

[sanyatuning]

The default browser should be the default action, settings for this should be an addition.

[ebisbe]

I was also looking for this. The app is awesome but I need to use the default browser

[rloechner]

+1 for this feature to be added.

[ericgoetz]

+1 Opening links within Station instead of the default browser seems counter to their design philosophy. In any case, I want all links to be opened within the default browser. Unlike the OP, however, I want the browser to come to the front and steal focus when I click on a link.

[libroraptor]

I think that we might benefit from a config pref:

• [ ] open links in a Signal browser
• [x] open links in system default browser

[k-r-chandran]

+1 to this--an option to open links directly in the default browser would be really helpful here

[samwh1te]

+1 !!!

[NSDodgers]

Yes please! +1

[wei-lin-lee]

+1 Please as Station is a very good multi tasking app but without default browser opening it actually hinders the multi tasking at work.

[viktor44]

Since Station 2.5.0 you can use Ctrl+Click (MacOS: Cmd+Click) to open a link in default browser and Shft+Click to open a link in background browser tab.

[NSDodgers]

it would be very nice if it could be set as default.

[viktor44]

@NSDodgers what could be set?

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[Th3CodeFather]

+1 this would make Station a dream app!

[Lindsor]

This actually causes issues with a lot of integrations. Gmail attachments (Open with drive), Discord links...

Theres a lot of these that just don't seem to work on station because default is that little InAppBrowser

[viktor44]

@Lindsor try https://github.com/getstation/desktop-app/issues/178#issuecomment-1759215072 Works perfect for me.

[Lindsor]

@viktor44 it works with a few links which is really nice but not all like these:

I cant show the entire screen but its a gmail word attachment to open in google drive

[k-r-chandran]

If we were offered an option to set a default, then some users who prefer the in app browser can choose to keep it. It seems to me that there are many uses for which this would be useful, but there are many times this adds confusion. The example above with Google Drive comes up quite often. Zoom links often create issues as well.

[viktor44]

@Lindsor I got it. You're right. It is a problem.

Unfortunately, this feature is not easy to implements.

[joshuadutton]

@viktor44 I've look at the source code to try and figure this out, but I don't see where to implement this yet. You say it's not easy, so I'm guessing that it's not as simple as modifying one of the click callbacks. Can you give me a bit more direction of what it would take to implement it so I can decide if I want to take it on?

This is only thing that bothers me about using Station. While there are other options like the right-click menu and Ctrl+Click (MacOS: Cmd+Click), I find that 90% of the time I forget to do this on the first try because my brain has been trained by all the other apps that I use.

[viktor44]

@joshuadutton it would be great if you tried to implement this. Actually I don't know how to do it 😄

Here https://github.com/getstation/desktop-app/blob/817ed93511e976c128fb851a908ed812401ee7a3/app/services/services/tab-webcontents/main.ts#L270

we are playing with the way of opening new window. Maybe it's now the right place to address the issue, but it's a good point to start the investigation.

[2ge]

+1 from me. It is really nagging me that by default Station is using own window, half things doesnt work there (PDF preview, sessions are not shared...). By default it should open in default browser, and in setting one can choose...it could be in theory per app settings, some apps I believe is ok to have it as it is now...but most of them nope.

[Litwilly]

+1 on using default browser as a default.

[Gauchoref]

Trying to decide which platform to migrate to replace Franz. Love my trial with Station but this one issue may be a deal-breaker

[joshuadutton]

I'm currently using Vivaldi browser as a replacement. I've setup my frequently used apps (like email) as "web panels" and it works quite well.