The only improvement I wish for would be to let middle-clicks open things in new tabs, like it does in all those other websites that aren't drowning themselves in clever javascript.
When this is broken, please use the "Report an Issue" button to let folks know. I am told that the fancy JavaScript-ized links are supposed to work just like ordinary anchor-tag links, so any user-visible deviation from this behaviour is a bug. (Don't ask me why in the hell Google is so fond of breaking their fancy links.)