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Click Me Sideways

I don't know what the deal is, but my FireFox is letting me down. I'm not angry, just... dissapointed.

It all started with the last update: something in my FireFox changed, and not for the better. It's running with a different crowd now, a seedier, dirtier, uglier crowd. A crowd that does not like images inside an anchor tag.

I can click on a linked image, everything is all well and good until I want to click the link with my middle mouse button such that it opens in another tab, something I always want to do. Really, I do. Always.

But it doesn't open in another tab. Oh no. It doesn't open at all, anywhere. No little dotted outline appears to let me know that the browser recognized a half-click. No satisfaction.

I can middle-click other links just fine. I can even ctrl-click or shift-click other links fine, but I cannot ctrl-click or shift-click linked images.

Oh wait, I guess I cannot middle-click all other links just fine. I just came across a regular link, just a plain anchor tag with and URL and some text, completely Old Skool, and it will not middle-, ctrl- or even shift-click for me.

This whole thing is driving me batty, but not in a productive way. No. Batty in the way I explain to my co-workers how the masthead design is nowhere near completed because can't you see, here, that this outline is completely wrong it should be 1.5 points thicker can't you see? And they end up smiling, nodding, and slowly backing out of my office.

Addendum: Turned out to be the Single Window 1.4 extension. It's so much better now! Yay!