Compose links in nodebb won't work when opened in a separate tab

[hoover67]

I'm writing a greasemonkey script to provide simple keyboard navigation functions in a nodebb istance that uses this composer and as a consquence has disabled nodebb's keyboard shortcuts.

Most of it works fine but I cannot use the /compose-URI in a function for window.replace() and / or window.location.href() which results in the following error when called or pasted into a new browser tab:

Internal Error.
Oops! Looks like something went wrong!

/compose

Failed to lookup view "compose" in views directory "/usr/src/app/build/public/templates"

However physically clicking on the "reply" link in the forum pages works fine.

I wonder if this is a bug or a feature?

Thanks & all the best,

Uwe