Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc): Vivaldi 5.1.2567.57 (Stable channel) (64-bit) Microsoft Edge 99.0.1150.30 (Official build) (64-bit) URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: It happens when you search from any p…

Also occurs in Firefox 97.0.2 (64-bit) running on Windows 10 Pro v19044.1586

Confirmed also on Firefox 97.0.2 on Linux (Linux Mint 20.3 MATE). To summarize, for clicking on “View Observations” or “About”: left-click opens page in current tab ctrl-left-click opens page in single new tab middle-click opens page in two new tabs When clicking on the taxon name itself, ctrl-le…

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?

[image] mrtnlowr: Why would you middle-click anyway? it’s just a fast way to open pages in a new tab. … 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 orig…

It only opens a single new tab in Chrome for me (fully updated browser). In Firefox it opens two tabs. I have a lot of anti-popup and such stuff enabled in Chrome, which may prevent the bug from happening.

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.

I have a mac and don’t think I can try to replicate without installing dodgy add-on software. Does this only happen for header search result links?

Yeah, it only seems to happen for the header search result links as far as I’ve seen.

Middle clicking "View Observations" or "About" on drop-down search results opens two tabs

Bug Reports

anon93074988 March 9, 2022, 5:38am 4

I’d check it in Chrome but I don’t want to be spammed by advertising

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Middle clicking "View Observations" or "About" on drop-down search results opens two tabs

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