Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
When you use the search bar on the top of any page on the iNaturalist website, and search for a Place, Taxon, etc., it drops down a list of search results, with the links of “View Observations” and “About” links. When you middle-click on either the View Observations or About buttons, it opens the identical tab twice.
Ctrl-Click performs the same function as middle-clicking, however this bug does not occur when using Ctrl-click. It also doesn’t occur when you click outside of those two buttons, which seems to open the same page as the “View Observations” buttions
When I tested this on Microsoft Edge, this bug didn’t occur at first. However, the bug started occurred after I allowed popups for inaturalist.org.
EDIT: I was using Windows (Windows 11, don’t know exact version number) when I encountered this bug.
Happens in Chrome (99.0.4844.51) too unless popups are blocked when only one new tab is opened.
Actually it happens on any link.
Why would you middle-click anyway?
this is a legitimate bug, i suppose, and i can reproduce it, but i sort of wonder if this is a thing that most people would realistically come across? besides middle-clicking, as the original poster notes, you’d probably have to explicitly allow pop-ups to see this behavior, since most browsers would block them by default. (i’ve seen the pop-up blocked notifications in the past when middle-clicking, but it never occurred to me to dig into the behavior any further because they were blocked.)
It seems specific to iNaturalist since it doesn’t occur on other sites.
Ctrl-Click achieves the same thing without the extra unnecessary tab or blocked popup notification.
