[alpaca128]

Which would not be a problem if sites wouldn't make it increasingly impossible to open links in new tabs.

Will clicking the link delete all progress? Better click with the middle mouse button. Now there's another set of possibilities: 1) the linked site opens in a new tab, 2) nothing happens, 3) an empty tab opens, 4) a tab containing a borked site opens, 5) the button is so broken the browser can't even recognise it as interactive UI element and instead turns on autoscrolling.

Yes, please give me hover menus, and when you're at it use links for links. HTML tags aren't just there as suggestions for weird JSX component names.

[Izkata]

6) the site uses Javascript to disable the default action and reimplements it, treating middle clicks as left-clicks and browsing away from the current page instead of opening a new tab.

Jira does this in several places, but not everywhere.

[etxm]

I have a hard time not smashing my laptop when this happens.

[dlkmp]

Atlassian software is definitely the champion in creating unexpected behavior within their apps. I'm using Tridactyl to use vim motions in my browser and they've made it entirely impossible for me to search within a page as they capture '/' to open the issue search.