[douche]

On the other hand, I almost never want to have a link open in the same tab. There's nothing more frustrating than being halfway down a page, forget to hold down ctrl when I click on a link, and have all of my state on the old page blown away and replaced with the new one.

Probably this is a result of the internet already being broken, since the worst of it is in infite-scrolling type things where my confidence that I can get back to where I was originally after going back is very, very low.

[MichaelApproved]

If you have a middle mouse button, you can middle click a link to open it in a new tab. Of course, that's if you didn't reprogram the middle button to do something else.

[jevinskie]

Reprogramming the meat behind the keyboard is often harder than reprogramming the machine.

[douche]

With mice that don't have real middle buttons, trying to click the scroll-wheel without triggering a scroll event instead can be very trying...