Comment 5 for bug 1548575

By that logic, _blank should open in Browser and non-blank should be in an overlay, right? Since an "in browser view" is closest to an overlay. But that's the opposite of what happens today.

As a webapp author, I don't have control of which the web site uses though. In my concrete case, I have a webapp for theoldreader.com (an RSS feed reader, which always uses _blank) and one for m.reddit.com (reddit, which doesn't use _blank).

But in both cases, I believe an overlay is the best experience. Switching to the Browser is a huge context switch. And temporary page views (as happens with RSS and reddit) tend to leave lots of tabs left over in Browser.

So at least as a webapp author, I'd like the option to enable overlays for non-_blank links. But let's hear from Design too.