Comment by nerdponx

3 years ago

There's also something weird with the way they programmed the site itself, which prevents you from opening certain links in a separate browser tab. it's really annoying when I'm not sure exactly what I need and I want to read all 10 product descriptions or whatever. I end up having to copy and paste the product URL and work backwards, rather than going all through the parts-filtering flow 10 times over from the beginning.

Otherwise the site is flawless in my opinion.

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myself248  3 years ago

This drove me nuts for a while until I figured out the workaround:

Expand down to a specific item. Click the item number to open the "last choice for quantity and stuff before adding to cart" dropdown. In this, rightclick "Item Detail" and open in new tab.

Now in the new tab, head to the top right, "view catalog page", and you're back to the category.

I agree that it's a weakness, though.

modriano  3 years ago

Does opening product detail pages in separate tabs not work for your workflow?

Tangential note: you can open a part number's product detail page via this URL, https://www.mcmaster.com/<part_number>/

And all part numbers will have the form: (4 or 5 integers)(1 capital letter A-Z)(1, 2, or 3 integers)