I’ve never understood why there’s a search box when you use the ‘link’ button to add a link to text in a post. Doesn’t make sense to me. But I was always able to ignore it and check the ‘open new window’ (or whatever it said) when choosing options. But now that useless (to me anyway) search box obscures what I assume is the open new window box (assume, because I can’t see the darned thing) since the search box encroaches on it.
Of course, imnvho, opening a new window when clicking a link should be the default (as has been said by others over a long period of time). But if you’re not going to make it the default, please at least make it so I can access that box to make that choice in the text editing window.
Also, as I went to add the below screen shot, I was in ‘text’ instead of ‘visual’. In text mode, when you click on ‘img’ you only get a dialog box asking for the image url, you are not given an opportunity to select an image from your hard drive. I had to switch to ‘visual’ in order to get the dialog box to choose a photo from my hard drive, fwiw.
