Soft-Lock Dev-Assistant by Middle-Clicking

Summary

You can get the integrated developer assistant panel stuck as a web-browser by middle-clicking any link, such as a suggested article, or even the privacy policy at the bottom of the landing page.
I cannot see an obvious way to return back to the Assistant, only popping it out as a new window and then closing it (Big X, not the small one) to break + reset it.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Other

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Ask AI
  2. Middle-Click a URL

Now you are stuck in a full-on web-browser with XSS, Cookies, the whole shebang.

Expected Result

  • The content opens in a new tab
  • a back button or something to return to AI
  • instead of attempting to open in “New Tab”, just treat it as left-click instead.

Observed Result

the “New Tab” instead takes over the AI Assistant chat panel.

Platform(s)

windows

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Honestly I would like this as a legit feature, a webview window on the side as an actual editor window so one could have documentation or even tutorials on the side (good for people with 1 screen on their pc in my opinion) just maybe having a go back button would help

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yeah totally, my first thought was “Oh cool, it just added another tab straight to the AI window - that’s perfect!”
Then I realised I couldnt get back to the convo haha.

I’d be happy with either. That tabs work, or some sort of back-button.

Fastest solution would obv just be to disable middle-click though, same as they did for right-click.

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Well you can, just close tab and press F1 and it will relaunch again on the assistant


I personally won’t upvote this bug report because it’s a non-issue and imo is one of those bugs that deserve to just be ignored or even become actual features

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