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I tend to open most links with a right click and then the first menu option: "Open link in new tab", and done so fast enough that I have not actually read the menu. But when the "link" is not a link but just an image, I have then instead clicked on "Open image in new tab".

This has especially been annoying when I have happened to use DuckDuckGo's image search instead of Google's or Bing's and instead of having opened ten tabs with links, I have ten tabs with a thumbnail in each ...



In case you want to save a few seconds of your life, you can also middle click or ctrl click instead of right clicking + left clicking on the menu.


...Except on websites that override this to make those links open in the current tab, or just silently fail.

On the modern web, the menu is more reliable.




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