diff --git a/include/api.php b/include/api.php
index f1221ef0b..b9187ca3a 100644
--- a/include/api.php
+++ b/include/api.php
@@ -952,8 +952,6 @@
 
 		$start = $page*$count;
 
-		//$include_entities = (x($_REQUEST,'include_entities')?$_REQUEST['include_entities']:false);
-
 		$sql_extra = '';
 		if ($max_id > 0)
 			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`id` <= '.intval($max_id);
@@ -1031,8 +1029,6 @@
 
 		$start = $page*$count;
 
-		//$include_entities = (x($_REQUEST,'include_entities')?$_REQUEST['include_entities']:false);
-
 		if ($max_id > 0)
 			$sql_extra = 'AND `item`.`id` <= '.intval($max_id);
 		if ($exclude_replies > 0)
@@ -1100,7 +1096,6 @@
 
 		logger('API: api_statuses_show: '.$id);
 
-		//$include_entities = (x($_REQUEST,'include_entities')?$_REQUEST['include_entities']:false);
 		$conversation = (x($_REQUEST,'conversation')?1:0);
 
 		$sql_extra = '';
@@ -1169,8 +1164,6 @@
 
 		logger('API: api_conversation_show: '.$id);
 
-		//$include_entities = (x($_REQUEST,'include_entities')?$_REQUEST['include_entities']:false);
-
 		$sql_extra = '';
 
 		if ($max_id > 0)
@@ -1225,8 +1218,6 @@
 
 		logger('API: api_statuses_repeat: '.$id);
 
-		//$include_entities = (x($_REQUEST,'include_entities')?$_REQUEST['include_entities']:false);
-
 		$r = q("SELECT `item`.*, `item`.`id` AS `item_id`, `item`.`network` AS `item_network`, `contact`.`nick` as `reply_author`,
 			`contact`.`name`, `contact`.`photo` as `reply_photo`, `contact`.`url` as `reply_url`, `contact`.`rel`,
 			`contact`.`network`, `contact`.`thumb`, `contact`.`dfrn-id`, `contact`.`self`,
@@ -1328,8 +1319,6 @@
 
 		$start = $page*$count;
 
-		//$include_entities = (x($_REQUEST,'include_entities')?$_REQUEST['include_entities']:false);
-
 		// Ugly code - should be changed
 		$myurl = $a->get_baseurl() . '/profile/'. $a->user['nickname'];
 		$myurl = substr($myurl,strpos($myurl,'://')+3);
@@ -1626,18 +1615,18 @@
 	function api_get_entitities($text, $bbcode) {
 		/*
 		To-Do:
-		* remove links to pictures if they are links of a picture
-		* Some video stuff isn't recognized
 		* Links at the first character of the post
 		* different sizes of pictures
 		* caching picture data (using the id for that?) (See privacy_image_cache)
 		*/
 
-		$include_entities = (x($_REQUEST,'include_entities')?$_REQUEST['include_entities']:true);
+		$include_entities = strtolower(x($_REQUEST,'include_entities')?$_REQUEST['include_entities']:"false");
 
-// To-Do
-//		if (!$include_entities OR ($include_entities == "false"))
-//			return false;
+		if ($include_entities != "true")
+			return array();
+
+		// Change pure links in text to bbcode uris
+		$bbcode = preg_replace("/([^\]\='".'"'."]|^)(https?\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\:\/\-\?\&\;\.\=\_\~\#\%\$\!\+\,]+)/ism", '$1[url=$2]$2[/url]', $bbcode);
 
 		$entities = array();
 		$entities["hashtags"] = array();
@@ -1645,14 +1634,24 @@
 		$entities["urls"] = array();
 		$entities["user_mentions"] = array();
 
-		$bbcode = preg_replace("/\[bookmark\=([^\]]*)\](.*?)\[\/bookmark\]/ism",'[url=$1]$2[/url]',$bbcode);
+		$URLSearchString = "^\[\]";
+
+		$bbcode = preg_replace("/#\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism",'#$2',$bbcode);
+
+		$bbcode = preg_replace("/\[bookmark\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/bookmark\]/ism",'[url=$1]$2[/url]',$bbcode);
 		//$bbcode = preg_replace("/\[url\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism",'[url=$1]$1[/url]',$bbcode);
 		$bbcode = preg_replace("/\[video\](.*?)\[\/video\]/ism",'[url=$1]$1[/url]',$bbcode);
+
+		$bbcode = preg_replace("/\[youtube\]([A-Za-z0-9\-_=]+)(.*?)\[\/youtube\]/ism",
+					'[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1[/url]', $bbcode);
 		$bbcode = preg_replace("/\[youtube\](.*?)\[\/youtube\]/ism",'[url=$1]$1[/url]',$bbcode);
+
+                $Text = preg_replace("/\[vimeo\]([0-9]+)(.*?)\[\/vimeo\]/ism",
+					'[url=https://vimeo.com/$1]https://vimeo.com/$1[/url]', $bbcode);
 		$bbcode = preg_replace("/\[vimeo\](.*?)\[\/vimeo\]/ism",'[url=$1]$1[/url]',$bbcode);
+
 		$bbcode = preg_replace("/\[img\=([0-9]*)x([0-9]*)\](.*?)\[\/img\]/ism", '[img]$3[/img]', $bbcode);
 
-		$URLSearchString = "^\[\]";
 		//preg_match_all("/\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism", $bbcode, $urls1);
 		preg_match_all("/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", $bbcode, $urls);
 
@@ -1716,8 +1715,8 @@
 				$image = @imagecreatefromstring($img_str);
 				if ($image) {
 					$entities["media"][] = array(
-								"id" => $start,
-								"id_str" => (string)$start,
+								"id" => $start+1,
+								"id_str" => (string)$start+1,
 								"indices" => array($start, $start+strlen($url)),
 								"media_url" => $url,
 								"media_url_https" => $url,
@@ -1792,7 +1791,8 @@
 
 			// Workaround for ostatus messages where the title is identically to the body
 			//$statusbody = trim(html2plain(bbcode(api_clean_plain_items($item['body']), false, false, 5, true), 0));
-			$statusbody = trim(html2plain(bbcode(api_clean_plain_items($item['body']), false, false, 2, true), 0));
+			$html = bbcode(api_clean_plain_items($item['body']), false, false, 2, true);
+			$statusbody = trim(html2plain($html, 0));
 
 			$statustitle = trim($item['title']);
 
@@ -1836,7 +1836,12 @@
 
 
 			// Retweets are only valid for top postings
-			if (($item['owner-link'] != $item['author-link']) AND ($item["id"] == $item["parent"])) {
+			// It doesn't work reliable with the link if its a feed
+			$IsRetweet = ($item['owner-link'] != $item['author-link']);
+			if ($IsRetweet)
+				$IsRetweet = (($item['owner-name'] != $item['author-name']) OR ($item['owner-avatar'] != $item['author-avatar']));
+
+			if ($IsRetweet AND ($item["id"] == $item["parent"])) {
 				$retweeted_status = $status;
 				$retweeted_status["user"] = api_get_user($a,$item["author-link"]);
 
@@ -2385,25 +2390,34 @@ function api_get_nick($profile) {
 }
 
 function api_clean_plain_items($Text) {
+	$include_entities = strtolower(x($_REQUEST,'include_entities')?$_REQUEST['include_entities']:"false");
+
+	if ($include_entities == "true") {
+		$URLSearchString = "^\[\]";
+
+		$Text = preg_replace("/#\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism",'#$2',$Text);
+		$Text = preg_replace("/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism",'[url=$1]$1[/url]',$Text);
+	}
+
 	$Text = preg_replace_callback("((.*?)\[class=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/class\])ism","api_cleanup_share",$Text);
 	return($Text);
 }
 
 function api_cleanup_share($shared) {
-        if ($shared[2] != "type-link")
-                return($shared[3]);
+	if ($shared[2] != "type-link")
+		return($shared[0]);
 
-        if (!preg_match_all("/\[bookmark\=([^\]]*)\](.*?)\[\/bookmark\]/ism",$shared[3], $bookmark))
-                return($shared[3]);
+	if (!preg_match_all("/\[bookmark\=([^\]]*)\](.*?)\[\/bookmark\]/ism",$shared[3], $bookmark))
+		return($shared[0]);
 
-        $title = "";
-        $link = "";
+	$title = "";
+	$link = "";
 
-        if (isset($bookmark[2][0]))
-                $title = $bookmark[2][0];
+	if (isset($bookmark[2][0]))
+		$title = $bookmark[2][0];
 
-        if (isset($bookmark[1][0]))
-                $link = $bookmark[1][0];
+	if (isset($bookmark[1][0]))
+		$link = $bookmark[1][0];
 
 	if (strpos($shared[1],$title) !== false)
 		$title = "";
@@ -2411,16 +2425,16 @@ function api_cleanup_share($shared) {
 	if (strpos($shared[1],$link) !== false)
 		$link = "";
 
-        $text = trim($shared[1]);
+	$text = trim($shared[1]);
 
 	//if (strlen($text) < strlen($title))
 	if (($text == "") AND ($title != ""))
 		$text .= "\n\n".trim($title);
 
-        if ($link != "")
-                $text .= "\n".trim($link);
+	if ($link != "")
+		$text .= "\n".trim($link);
 
-        return(trim($text));
+	return(trim($text));
 }
 
 function api_best_nickname(&$contacts) {
diff --git a/include/bbcode.php b/include/bbcode.php
index ee066f05a..186caad7b 100644
--- a/include/bbcode.php
+++ b/include/bbcode.php
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ function bb_ShareAttributes($match) {
 	if ($avatar != "")
 		$headline .= '<img src="'.$avatar.'" height="32" width="32" >';
 
-	$headline .= sprintf(t('<span><a href="%s" target="external-link">%s</a> wrote the following <a href="%s" target="external-link">post</a>'.$reldate.':</span>'), $profile, $author, $link);
+	$headline .= sprintf(t('<span><a href="%s" target="_blank">%s</a> wrote the following <a href="%s" target="_blank">post</a>'.$reldate.':</span>'), $profile, $author, $link);
 
         $headline .= "</div>";
 
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ function bb_ShareAttributesDiaspora($match) {
 	$headline .= '<span><b>'.html_entity_decode("&#x2672; ", ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8').$userid.':</b></span>';
 	//$headline .= sprintf(t('<span><b>'.
 	//		html_entity_decode("&#x2672; ", ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8').
-	//		'<a href="%s" target="external-link">%s</a>%s:</b></span>'), $profile, $userid, $posted);
+	//		'<a href="%s" target="_blank">%s</a>%s:</b></span>'), $profile, $userid, $posted);
         $headline .= "</div>";
 
 	$text = trim($match[1]);
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ function bb_ShareAttributesForExport($match) {
 	$headline = '<div class="shared_header">';
 	$headline .= sprintf(t('<span><b>'.
 			html_entity_decode("&#x2672; ", ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8').
-			'<a href="%s" target="external-link">%s</a>%s:</b></span>'), $link, $userid, $posted);
+			'<a href="%s" target="_blank">%s</a>%s:</b></span>'), $link, $userid, $posted);
         $headline .= "</div>";
 
 	$text = trim($match[1]);
@@ -533,6 +533,23 @@ function GetProfileUsername($profile, $username) {
 	return($username);
 }
 
+function RemovePictureLinks($match) {
+	$ch = @curl_init($match[2]);
+	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
+	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+	@curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Friendica)");
+	@curl_exec($ch);
+	$curl_info = @curl_getinfo($ch);
+
+	if (substr($curl_info["content_type"], 0, 6) == "image/")
+		$text = "[url=".$match[2]."]".$match[2]."[/url]";
+	else
+		$text = "[url=".$match[1]."]".$match[1]."[/url]";
+
+	return($text);
+}
+
+
 	// BBcode 2 HTML was written by WAY2WEB.net
 	// extended to work with Mistpark/Friendica - Mike Macgirvin
 
@@ -632,19 +649,21 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 
 	// if the HTML is used to generate plain text, then don't do this search, but replace all URL of that kind to text
 	if (!$forplaintext)
-		$Text = preg_replace("/([^\]\='".'"'."]|^)(https?\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\:\/\-\?\&\;\.\=\_\~\#\%\$\!\+\,]+)/ism", '$1<a href="$2" target="external-link">$2</a>', $Text);
-	else
-		$Text = preg_replace("(\[url\](.*?)\[\/url\])ism"," $1 ",$Text);
+		$Text = preg_replace("/([^\]\='".'"'."]|^)(https?\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\:\/\-\?\&\;\.\=\_\~\#\%\$\!\+\,]+)/ism", '$1<a href="$2" target="_blank">$2</a>', $Text);
+	else {
+		$Text = preg_replace("(\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\])ism"," $1 ",$Text);
+		$Text = preg_replace_callback("&\[url=([^\[\]]*)\]\[img\](.*)\[\/img\]\[\/url\]&Usi", 'RemovePictureLinks', $Text);
+	}
 
 	if ($tryoembed)
 		$Text = preg_replace_callback("/\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism",'tryoembed',$Text);
 
-	$Text = preg_replace("/\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism", '<a href="$1" target="external-link">$1</a>', $Text);
-	$Text = preg_replace("/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", '<a href="$1" target="external-link">$2</a>', $Text);
+	$Text = preg_replace("/\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism", '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>', $Text);
+	$Text = preg_replace("/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$2</a>', $Text);
 	//$Text = preg_replace("/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism", '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$2</a>', $Text);
 
 	// Red compatibility, though the link can't be authenticated on Friendica
-	$Text = preg_replace("/\[zrl\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/zrl\]/ism", '<a href="$1" target="external-link">$2</a>', $Text);
+	$Text = preg_replace("/\[zrl\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/zrl\]/ism", '<a href="$1" target="_blank">$2</a>', $Text);
 
 
 	// we may need to restrict this further if it picks up too many strays
@@ -812,9 +831,9 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 		$Text = preg_replace_callback("/\[audio\](.*?)\[\/audio\]/ism", 'tryoembed', $Text);
 	} else {
 		$Text = preg_replace("/\[video\](.*?)\[\/video\]/",
-					'<a href="$1" target="external-link">$1</a>', $Text);
+					'<a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>', $Text);
 		$Text = preg_replace("/\[audio\](.*?)\[\/audio\]/",
-					'<a href="$1" target="external-link">$1</a>', $Text);
+					'<a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>', $Text);
 	}
 
 	// html5 video and audio
@@ -840,7 +859,7 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 		$Text = preg_replace("/\[youtube\]([A-Za-z0-9\-_=]+)(.*?)\[\/youtube\]/ism", '<iframe width="' . $a->videowidth . '" height="' . $a->videoheight . '" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/$1" frameborder="0" ></iframe>', $Text);
 	else
 		$Text = preg_replace("/\[youtube\]([A-Za-z0-9\-_=]+)(.*?)\[\/youtube\]/ism",
-					'<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1" target="external-link">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1</a>', $Text);
+					'<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1</a>', $Text);
 
 	if ($tryoembed) {
 		$Text = preg_replace_callback("/\[vimeo\](https?:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/[0-9]+).*?\[\/vimeo\]/ism",'tryoembed',$Text); 
@@ -854,7 +873,7 @@ function bbcode($Text,$preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fal
 		$Text = preg_replace("/\[vimeo\]([0-9]+)(.*?)\[\/vimeo\]/ism", '<iframe width="' . $a->videowidth . '" height="' . $a->videoheight . '" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/$1" frameborder="0" ></iframe>', $Text);
 	else
 		$Text = preg_replace("/\[vimeo\]([0-9]+)(.*?)\[\/vimeo\]/ism",
-					'<a href="https://vimeo.com/$1" target="external-link">https://vimeo.com/$1</a>', $Text);
+					'<a href="https://vimeo.com/$1" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/$1</a>', $Text);
 
 //	$Text = preg_replace("/\[youtube\](.*?)\[\/youtube\]/", '<object width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/$1" ><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/$1"></param><!--[if IE]><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/$1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" /><![endif]--></object>', $Text);
 
diff --git a/include/conversation.php b/include/conversation.php
index 5b9a11bde..8e868afec 100644
--- a/include/conversation.php
+++ b/include/conversation.php
@@ -558,13 +558,13 @@ function conversation(&$a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 						$tag["url"] = $searchpath.strtolower($tag["term"]);
 
 					if ($tag["type"] == TERM_HASHTAG) {
-						$hashtags[] = "#<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"external-link\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
+						$hashtags[] = "#<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"_blank\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
 						$prefix = "#";
 					} elseif ($tag["type"] == TERM_MENTION) {
-						$mentions[] = "@<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"external-link\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
+						$mentions[] = "@<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"_blank\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
 						$prefix = "@";
 					}
-					$tags[] = $prefix."<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"external-link\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
+					$tags[] = $prefix."<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"_blank\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
 				}
 
 				/*foreach(explode(',',$item['tag']) as $tag){
diff --git a/include/network.php b/include/network.php
index a663a6d94..4bc50974b 100644
--- a/include/network.php
+++ b/include/network.php
@@ -826,6 +826,10 @@ function add_fcontact($arr,$update = false) {
 
 function scale_external_images($srctext, $include_link = true, $scale_replace = false) {
 
+	// Suppress "view full size"
+	if (intval(get_config('system','no_view_full_size')))
+		$include_link = false;
+
 	$a = get_app();
 
 	// Picture addresses can contain special characters
diff --git a/include/text.php b/include/text.php
index 4ce823ccd..872bf7425 100644
--- a/include/text.php
+++ b/include/text.php
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ if(! function_exists('linkify')) {
  * @param string $s
  */
 function linkify($s) {
-	$s = preg_replace("/(https?\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\:\/\-\?\&\;\.\=\_\~\#\'\%\$\!\+]*)/", ' <a href="$1" target="external-link">$1</a>', $s);
+	$s = preg_replace("/(https?\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\:\/\-\?\&\;\.\=\_\~\#\'\%\$\!\+]*)/", ' <a href="$1" target="_blank">$1</a>', $s);
 	$s = preg_replace("/\<(.*?)(src|href)=(.*?)\&amp\;(.*?)\>/ism",'<$1$2=$3&$4>',$s);
 	return($s);
 }}
@@ -1301,13 +1301,13 @@ function prepare_body(&$item,$attach = false) {
 				$tag["url"] = $searchpath.strtolower($tag["term"]);
 
 			if ($tag["type"] == TERM_HASHTAG) {
-				$hashtags[] = "#<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"external-link\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
+				$hashtags[] = "#<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"_blank\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
 				$prefix = "#";
 			} elseif ($tag["type"] == TERM_MENTION) {
-				$mentions[] = "@<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"external-link\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
+				$mentions[] = "@<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"_blank\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
 				$prefix = "@";
 			}
-			$tags[] = $prefix."<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"external-link\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
+			$tags[] = $prefix."<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"_blank\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ function prepare_body(&$item,$attach = false) {
 					$title = ((strlen(trim($mtch[4]))) ? escape_tags(trim($mtch[4])) : escape_tags($mtch[1]));
 					$title .= ' ' . $mtch[2] . ' ' . t('bytes');
 
-					$as .= '<a href="' . strip_tags($the_url) . '" title="' . $title . '" class="attachlink" target="external-link" >' . $icon . '</a>';
+					$as .= '<a href="' . strip_tags($the_url) . '" title="' . $title . '" class="attachlink" target="_blank" >' . $icon . '</a>';
 				}
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/view/templates/event.tpl b/view/templates/event.tpl
index 4788dcb38..961f0155b 100644
--- a/view/templates/event.tpl
+++ b/view/templates/event.tpl
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 	
 	{{if $event.item.author_name}}<a href="{{$event.item.author_link}}" ><img src="{{$event.item.author_avatar}}" height="32" width="32" />{{$event.item.author_name}}</a>{{/if}}
 	{{$event.html}}
-	{{if $event.item.plink}}<a href="{{$event.plink.0}}" title="{{$event.plink.1}}" target="external-link" class="plink-event-link icon s22 remote-link"></a>{{/if}}
+	{{if $event.item.plink}}<a href="{{$event.plink.0}}" title="{{$event.plink.1}}" target="_blank" class="plink-event-link icon s22 remote-link"></a>{{/if}}
 	{{if $event.edit}}<a href="{{$event.edit.0}}" title="{{$event.edit.1}}" class="edit-event-link icon s22 pencil"></a>{{/if}}
 	</div>
 	<div class="clear"></div>
diff --git a/view/templates/events.tpl b/view/templates/events.tpl
index 054200ca2..f798a8e37 100644
--- a/view/templates/events.tpl
+++ b/view/templates/events.tpl
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 	{{if $event.is_first}}<hr /><a name="link-{{$event.j}}" ><div class="event-list-date">{{$event.d}}</div></a>{{/if}}
 	{{if $event.item.author_name}}<a href="{{$event.item.author_link}}" ><img src="{{$event.item.author_avatar}}" height="32" width="32" />{{$event.item.author_name}}</a>{{/if}}
 	{{$event.html}}
-	{{if $event.item.plink}}<a href="{{$event.plink.0}}" title="{{$event.plink.1}}" target="external-link" class="plink-event-link icon s22 remote-link"></a>{{/if}}
+	{{if $event.item.plink}}<a href="{{$event.plink.0}}" title="{{$event.plink.1}}" target="_blank" class="plink-event-link icon s22 remote-link"></a>{{/if}}
 	{{if $event.edit}}<a href="{{$event.edit.0}}" title="{{$event.edit.1}}" class="edit-event-link icon s22 pencil"></a>{{/if}}
 	</div>
 	<div class="clear"></div>
diff --git a/view/templates/profile_vcard.tpl b/view/templates/profile_vcard.tpl
index 3f4d3c711..4734f5525 100644
--- a/view/templates/profile_vcard.tpl
+++ b/view/templates/profile_vcard.tpl
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
 	{{if $marital}}<dl class="marital"><dt class="marital-label"><span class="heart">&hearts;</span>{{$marital}}</dt><dd class="marital-text">{{$profile.marital}}</dd></dl>{{/if}}
 
-	{{if $homepage}}<dl class="homepage"><dt class="homepage-label">{{$homepage}}</dt><dd class="homepage-url"><a href="{{$profile.homepage}}" target="external-link">{{$profile.homepage}}</a></dd></dl>{{/if}}
+	{{if $homepage}}<dl class="homepage"><dt class="homepage-label">{{$homepage}}</dt><dd class="homepage-url"><a href="{{$profile.homepage}}" target="_blank">{{$profile.homepage}}</a></dd></dl>{{/if}}
 
 	{{include file="diaspora_vcard.tpl"}}
 	
diff --git a/view/templates/wall_thread.tpl b/view/templates/wall_thread.tpl
index c0e30c4cb..6dc9e5c3a 100644
--- a/view/templates/wall_thread.tpl
+++ b/view/templates/wall_thread.tpl
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
 			</div>
 			{{/if}}
 			{{if $item.plink}}
-				<div class="wall-item-links-wrapper"><a href="{{$item.plink.href}}" title="{{$item.plink.title}}" target="external-link" class="icon remote-link{{$item.sparkle}}"></a></div>
+				<div class="wall-item-links-wrapper"><a href="{{$item.plink.href}}" title="{{$item.plink.title}}" target="_blank" class="icon remote-link{{$item.sparkle}}"></a></div>
 			{{/if}}
 			{{if $item.edpost}}
 				<a class="editpost icon pencil" href="{{$item.edpost.0}}" title="{{$item.edpost.1}}"></a>
diff --git a/view/theme/vier/templates/profile_vcard.tpl b/view/theme/vier/templates/profile_vcard.tpl
index 9e0da287c..0a5464252 100644
--- a/view/theme/vier/templates/profile_vcard.tpl
+++ b/view/theme/vier/templates/profile_vcard.tpl
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 
 	{{if $marital}}<dl class="marital"><dt class="marital-label"><span class="heart">&hearts;</span>{{$marital}}</dt><dd class="marital-text">{{$profile.marital}}</dd></dl>{{/if}}
 
-	{{if $homepage}}<dl class="homepage"><dt class="homepage-label">{{$homepage}}</dt><dd class="homepage-url"><a href="{{$profile.homepage}}" target="external-link">{{$profile.homepage}}</a></dd></dl>{{/if}}
+	{{if $homepage}}<dl class="homepage"><dt class="homepage-label">{{$homepage}}</dt><dd class="homepage-url"><a href="{{$profile.homepage}}" target="_blank">{{$profile.homepage}}</a></dd></dl>{{/if}}
 
 	{{include file="diaspora_vcard.tpl"}}