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'Open URL' button either opens a tab or downloads a file

  • June 27, 2024
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JBJ
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When in data view I click a button that opens a URL, each time a new tab opens. To avoid that, I tried the trick of pressing the ⌥ button while clicking the button, but this time a .TXT file gets downloaded onto my computer on the clicking of the button.

This is quite annoying, especially when you have to perform a button clicking multiple times. Do you have any solutions in store to circumvent this?

I would appreciate your help on this.

PS: I saw that this topic had already been covered in previous threads. But I thought that Airtable might have fixed this since the last time it was brought up.

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  • October 8, 2025

Not sure if this is the same thing, but sometimes when I am in Chrome on Mac, suddenly, anything I do in airtable just downloads a file. If I click on a link, it downloads a file. If I go to the browser address bar and type in airtable.com, it downloads a file. These appear to be blank files with no extension. They are between 50 and 70 bytes. I have to quit and restart Chrome to fix.