Forum Forum captures middle-clicks?

[FredMSloniker 2]

I've noticed that if I middle-click on a forum link on the main forum page (it doesn't seem to affect sub-pages), it opens a new tab for the forum as usual--but it also advances as if I'd left-clicked on the link as well, preventing further middle-clicking. This is annoying when I'm trying to get caught up on my reading. Why is this happening?

 

EDIT: this also affects subforum links and thread links, but not, say, the wiki link.

[Lizzian 46]

Doesn't happen for me using FF.

Does it still happen for you? If so what browser are you using?

(yes, I have looked at the date of this topic)

[dgelessus 26]

Middle-click works fine for me in Firefox, but Ctrl/Cmd-click still has the behavior that the OP described. Trackpads don't have middle-click, so I need to use Ctrl/Cmd-click when I use my laptop without a mouse plugged in.

[Lizzian 46]

It seems to work for me with FF on Linux, not sure if that's something I'm going to be able ot fix

[dgelessus 26]

And for me it's broken on OS X and Windows. If it matters, I'm using Firefox Developer Edition (the preview/beta-ish version of Firefox), not sure if that makes a difference. The Cmd-click issue has been like this for a while now, so any changes related to that should be in release Firefox too.

[natedogith1 4]

Just tried with fire fox on windows 10, doesn't happen there.  But this issue does still exist on windows 10 google chrome.

[skyem123 4]

I have the same issue using Google Chrome on Windows 10, middle click opens the new tab, and it also goes to the link like I wasn't middle clicking.

[PoolloverNathan 0]

Just tested (Edgium Canary on Windows 10) and works completely fine.

 

Edgium = edge + chromium

[BrisingrAerowing 11]

Middle click works for me on FF 76.0.1 on Win10, as does Ctrl click. I would presume this was a browser bug.