Middle clicking a link on chrome sometimes also switches the current tab to the new one
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In chrome, most of the time, when i middle click on a link (text or image), it opens a new tab and the current tab does not change. This is the expected behaviour. However, some websites have links (i'd say 5%) that also switches the current tab to the new one. For example: on this page, the name o…
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The table row that those player links are on uses the following HTML/JS code: Therefore if you middle click the link you are also in effect clicking the table row, hence why the JavaScript then changes the current tab to the target page as well. Ins…
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