Ctrl clicking taxa from searchbar opens google

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Platform: Web

App version number, if a mobile app issue:

Browser, if a website issue: Firefox 143.0.4

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: any page on iNaturalist (e.g. inaturalist.org)

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

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Description of problem:

Step 1: type anything into the search bar

Step 2: ctrl+click anywhere on any suggestion except the “View Observation” or “About” buttons

Expected behavior:

Either the relevant taxon page would open in a new tab (as used to be the case) or the observation grid for that taxon would open in a new tab (as now seems to be the default behavior of clicking a dropdown from the search menu. As an aside, was this change intentional? I really preferred the old functionality…)

Actual behavior:

Google.com opens in a new tab(???)

Note: this happens to me on multiple devices, even after disabling all browser extensions. Google is also neither my home page nor my default new tab page.

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I always double-tap on a link to open in a new tab, so I’ve never seen this. We think we introduced it by accident in February of last year. It will be fixed.

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Great to hear, thank you so much!!

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I noticed that yesterday and thought it was my fault. Had a good little laugh, when I saw your title in my inat front page. (Ha! Not just me!) :D
Quite unrelated, but I use Ctrl+M1 to open in new tabs ^^

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It’s been fixed, although the fix is to split each result line into two sections. The “View Observations” section covers that text plus anything to the left, and the “About” section surrounds the “About” text. So ctrl-clicking in each section won’t open a new empty tab, it will open a new tab of either observations or about, depending on which part of the result line you click in.

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Working for me! Thank you!

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