[Findecanor]

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 ...

[johntash]

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.

[Hemospectrum]

...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.