Is it just me?

[katyism.livejournal.com]

In the last couple of days, I've noticed this behavior and I know for a fact it worked 'normally' before.

I'm using firefox, and every day I visit MSN.com to alleviate boredom and check my hotmail spam account. I usually middle-click any interesting links to open them up in another Firefox tab to read later on. It used to work fine.

As of a couple days ago, though, if I middle-click any of those MSN links, they open up in a new tab AND the current tab, overwriting the page I was looking at and wanted to stay on (the whole advantage of tabbed browsing, in my opinion). I have to click Back to go back to the page I was on, blah blah blah.

Well, I thought I'd try right-clicking to get the menu to Open Link in New Tab. Guess what? A simple right-click does the same thing - opens the link in the current tab and a new one.

Basically I'm wondering if this coded into the MSN pages purposefully by Microsoft to thwart Firefox users, or if it was some sort of oversightcoincidence thing. Anyone else noticed this?

Edit: This only seems to affect MSN sites and others work fine. Also, I mistakenly said right-click opens up an extra tab. Actually it just opens the link on the current tab, but it's still annoying.

Comments

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a javascript override, and it's a safe bet MS knows EXACTLY how it effects firefox users.

[klytus.livejournal.com]

I'd take that bet. Micro$uck is petty enough to go out of its way to screw up the functionality of a competing web-browser "just because". Or to get get folks to use IE to browse. Either one works.

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they've done it a bunch of times already with Opera and Firefox. One more wrench in the works isn't a shock.

[sarig.livejournal.com]

ctrl+click still works though, at least for me.

[katyism.livejournal.com]

aha! they didn't do their research.

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

it does that for me too, ctrl+right click still works,
try it in opera, that works as normal.

[pleaseremove.livejournal.com]

Interesting, i tried this, and when i right-click, i get some crappy custom menu of theirs, when i middle-click, nothing happens and when i do Ctrl+click nothing happens.

The only thing i can think of is i did a java update from sun the otherday, i wonder if that did it...hmm, ah well

[tecie.livejournal.com]

Hotmail also habitually has problems with gmail

[katyism.livejournal.com]

how so?