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#133766 1-Nov-2013 15:10

I've noticed an issue a few times today but I'm not sure whether it's a Geekzone or browser issue (I did an update yesterday).

Sometimes when I middle-click a link to open it in a new tab, it also opens it in the current tab (so it loads twice). This doesn't happen every time, and doesn't seem to be isolated to any particular link. Has anyone else run into this?

Browser is Firefox 17.0.10.

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#925774 1-Nov-2013 15:16

Install Firefox 25?

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#925779 1-Nov-2013 15:19

Has happened to me too Chrome Version 30.0.1599.101 m. I assumed there was something wrong with my mouse

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#925856 1-Nov-2013 16:43

Something similar to this happens to me sometimes when I click a link on my freshly opened homepage (yahoo.xtra) using Chrome.
Except it doesn't open the second tab at all, instead it loads the link into the current tab.
And usually, once I've opened a second tab via another means, it seems to 'fix' itself and not do it again.
Not sure why, most likely some form of ID 10 T error in my case o_O

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#925862 1-Nov-2013 17:04

I'm back at home now (Safari) so I'll post back if it happens again. I updated Firefox at work but didn't get a chance to click around GZ much.

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#925898 1-Nov-2013 17:44

Works fine on Chrome 30.0.1599.101

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#925945 1-Nov-2013 19:10

most of the time fine for me too, just sometimes and I haven't been able to see a pattern

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#925947 1-Nov-2013 19:11

like just now with

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/

wheel click open in background as well as current

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#925966 1-Nov-2013 19:37

working fine for me, Chrome 30.0.1599.69 m .. maybe i should update, the indicators starting to get red..

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#926210 2-Nov-2013 11:48

We had someone complain about this on works website and they found it was some addon they had caused it to happen sometimes.

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#926843 4-Nov-2013 09:28

It's been happening with me on IE as well. Pretty annoying.

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#927450 5-Nov-2013 10:01

This just happened to me when clicking on a link within a GZ forum message. I use that latest version of Opera.

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#927482 5-Nov-2013 10:41

I haven't noticed this happen on any other website. It only seems to affect links on GZ to external sites.

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#927989 6-Nov-2013 08:35

freitasm: Install Firefox 25?

Same issue at work using Firefox 25. Haven't noticed it on Chrome or IE, will test.

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#931631 12-Nov-2013 17:26

It kinda looks like a weird interaction between Chrome and Linksmart to me from a quick look in the Chrome dev tools, haven't tested with addon's disabled though.

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#934491 15-Nov-2013 15:47

I just came here to start a new topic about this. It's happening to me as well (happens with the link posted above).

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