# Page picker always opens a new browser tab when selecting certain pages (like person/Joe)
**URL:** https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997
**Category:** v1: Troubleshooting (legacy)
**Created:** [March 18, 2025, 7:47am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997 "2025-03-18T07:47:24Z")
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### Author:  [@paletochen](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/paletochen)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 7:47am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/1 "2025-03-18T07:47:24Z")
System: Debian, Docker, Edge image
Hi,
I am currently facing an issue in my 2 docker instances which are also configured as PWA, and in 2 different browsers (Chrome and Firefox).
When I have the instance opened, regardless if it is as a tab, or as a PWA, and I try to open `person/Joe` it does open that page in a new browser tab.
That means that when I am in PWA mode, I miss the page opened (Joe) as I normally have Silverbullet PWA instance opened in a different workspace than the rest of the apps.
If i open silverbullet as a browser tab, it just creates a new tab.
I can see the same behavior in Chrome and Firefox.
Does anyone see the same?
And if not, any idea how i could resolve this?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/2 "2025-03-18T13:35:34Z")
I cannot replicate this behavior. Does this happen when you navigate using the page picker or when clicking on links. And does it happen for all pages, or just pages in folders?
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### Author:  [@paletochen](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/paletochen)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/3 "2025-03-18T13:52:21Z")
Thanks for checking this š
> [@zef](#):
>
> Does this happen when you navigate using the page picker or when clicking on links.
When using the page picker
> [@zef](#):
>
> And does it happen for all pages, or just pages in folders?
Funny though, only for pages inside `Person` folder, like `Person/Joe`
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/4 "2025-03-18T13:56:03Z")
What can I sayā¦ this doesnāt happen for me. Anything special about the Person folder? Anything odd in the logs?
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### Author:  [@paletochen](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/paletochen)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/5 "2025-03-18T13:58:39Z")
Thatās what I am trying to figure out.
I have an emoji assigned to the pages, trying to remove them to see if thatās the issue, but it is taking a long time for my instance to update the changes
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### Author:  [@paletochen](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/paletochen)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/6 "2025-03-18T14:13:39Z")
The only difference between open another page and one that opens in a new tab is the following message in the console, when it opens in a new tab:
```auto
Couldn't find plug for specified extension client.ts:1214:16
```
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/7 "2025-03-18T14:14:43Z")
Ok that can actually explain it. Your literal example is Person/Joe? Not something with a `.` in the name?
And you are really on a recent edge build right, because there was a regression similar to this a week or so ago I remember.
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### Author:  [@paletochen](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/paletochen)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/8 "2025-03-18T14:20:14Z")
Iāll force a new image right now and let you know.
`person/Joe` was just an example. My pages are most of them real names, including surname. But i tested with pages without spaces and it was the same behavior.
Example, a real one that I have is this one, which opens in a new tab:
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### Author:  [@paletochen](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/paletochen)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/9 "2025-03-18T14:23:53Z")
Thatās the image version:
zefhemel/silverbullet:edge@sha256:286bfd389581dda6a19bab8d7153989645c20a1b2239d8e0e6c1c8ef75c54b7f
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### Author:  [@paletochen](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/paletochen)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/10 "2025-03-18T15:07:31Z")
I found the issue, it is related to the objectDecorators (slightly):
```auto
objectDecorators:
- where: 'type = "person"'
attributes:
pageDecoration.prefix: '"š§ "'
```
The problem seems to be, not really the Decorator, but what i used for it `type:`
If i change `type:` for `tags:` in the personās page, it seems to work.
So iāll try to mass change all my `types:` to `tags:` and change the Decorator.
Is it ok to have two `tags:` rows in the frontmatter?
Until i fix that, i may have two rows as i am mass replacing from:
```auto
type: person
tags: family
```
to
```auto
tags: person
tags: family
```
(for example)
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/11 "2025-03-18T15:19:59Z")
Oh wow, thatās very obscure, but indeed this is likely related to the recent introduction of custom editors,.
@MrMugame ā maybe something we can avoid? Itās not great to implicitly introduce new restrictions of attribute names like `type`. Itās not immediately obvious where this breaks, but I remember an additional `type` property being passed around, which is likely whatās clashing here.
@paletochen Iād expect that if you have twice the same key you either get a parse error, or the second overrides the other. Youād have to change it to list syntax, or use another term like `kind` for instance.
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### Author:  [@MrMugame](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/MrMugame)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/12 "2025-03-18T15:22:11Z")
Yeah, Iām unsure of the top of my head where this happens, but Iām definitely gonna look into it today or tomorrow. Should definitely not happen tho
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### Author:  [@MrMugame](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/MrMugame)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/13 "2025-03-18T15:40:44Z")
I think I already found it.
>
`pageMeta` overwrites the type causing the navigation to not know itās type. Is there a good reason to spread the metadata here? A quick solution would just be to reorder these so we overwrite the user provided metadata, thats not really nice tho
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/14 "2025-03-18T15:42:34Z")
> [@MrMugame](#):
>
> Is there a good reason to spread the metadata here?
Maybe not good, but I think some of the code elsewhere is changing the rendering based on some specific attributes like aliases, tags etc. This has all become a bit messy over time, though. Maybe good to just pass on `pageMeta` without the spreading, and pull data from there in other places.
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### Author:  [@MrMugame](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/MrMugame)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/15 "2025-03-18T15:44:31Z")
We could just do `meta: pageMeta` and change the code everywhere else there tag, etc is used
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/16 "2025-03-18T15:47:31Z")
Yes, that sounds right.
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### Author:  [@MrMugame](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/MrMugame)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/17 "2025-03-18T15:52:45Z")
lol yeah thats what you already said woops
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### Author:  [@paletochen](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/paletochen)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/18 "2025-03-18T16:08:05Z")
Thanks folks for looking into this.
And sorry for giving you more work due to finding this weird ābugā š
I have solved it on my side in the meantime by changing `type: ` to `kind: `
Eventually I may change it to something else, even if back to `type: ` if it gets fixed
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### Author:  [@MrMugame](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/MrMugame)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997/19 "2025-03-18T20:43:47Z")
No problem, I created the bug ā¦
Anyway, this should fix it once merged
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> This fixes a bug where page attributes could overwrite internal variables leadinā¦g to unwanted behaviour
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> https://community.silverbullet.md/t/page-picker-always-opens-a-new-browser-tab-when-selecting-certain-pages-like-person-joe/1997
>
> (Someday this should be properly typed)