Feature Request: Option to *not* automatically open external links inside Obsidian

[chrisgrieser]

Feature Requested

With the plugin installed, every link I click will be opened in an Obsidian tab. While having an option to do so is useful, I find it quite annoying that it always happens.

If there is a link in a note that I want to open in the browser, I have two options.
Option one:

• click on the link
• wait for the site to load
• right click
• select "Open URL in External browser"
• wait again for the link to load
• and when I am going back to Obsidian, I also have a leftover tab which I now need to close

Option two:

• right click the link
• copy the url
• alt+tab multiple times until I am in the browser
• go to the address bar
• paste the link there
• press return
• wait for the site to load

Especially when you work with a lot of links, this is very, very tedious compared to the default "click on the link and you are in browser".

Would it be possible to have an option to disable the Surfing plugin's behavior of always opening every URL in Obsidian, and add a command or right-click-menu-item to open the link inside Obsidian?

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Checklist

• The feature would be useful to more users than just me.

[Quorafind]

You can hold metakey and click to open it in external browser

[chrisgrieser]

Shears tried all modifier keys, does not work

[Quorafind]

Weird, i will check it again and then nake an option that allows you open external or in obsidian by default.

[Quorafind]

@chrisgrieser can you check again if the issue remains when you are holding metakey? btw, I file a new fr issue #135

[chrisgrieser]

it does, but I discovered that on mac, it seems to be the cmd key instead, so command+click opens in the external browser.

[eKerney]

Has this been resolved? On Windows 11 hotkey to open in external browser does not work.
Thank you, great plugin!

[W1Real]

On windows 10 CTRL + Click.