Make Firefox left-click open in current tab, and middle-click open in new tab

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Published on 2010-04-16T15:45:27Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 15:54 UTC
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I'm sick of the inconsistent behavior of clicking on links in Firefox. I want control of where they open up. If I'm done with a page and want to replace it with the link I am clicking, I left-click. If there are things I want to look at in the future, but I'm not done with this page yet, I'll middle-click. This normally works, but there are exceptions.

If the website designer uses target="_blank", my left-click is overridden and the link opens in a new tab/window.
If the links are javascript, a middle-click rarely works. I get an (Untitled) tab with some javascript as the URL.
etc.

How do I fix these things and get consistent clicking on links?

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