CTRL-<left click> broken

BobTheHawkHater

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My favorite way to browse the CF forums in the morning is to start from my bookmarked https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/ page and scroll through the first few pages of thread titles. When I see a thread that interests me, I Ctrl-leftclick the thread link to open it in a new tab (using the latest Chrome on Windows 11 Pro). This creates a bunch of open tabs, one for each thread, then I go read those and close the tabs when done.

This has always worked for many years until maybe the last 3-6 months. Some days when I start out, the Ctrl-leftclick feature doesn't work at all and each thread always opens in my main tab. More often, Ctrl-leftclick works to open new tabs for any thread listed on the first page of thread titles. Once I click "Load More" at the bottom of the forums page, Ctrl-leftclick seems to be permanently disabled for all other pages and any further attempts from pages 2, 3, etc result in the thread opening in my main tab.

ChatGPT tells me this is likely a CF issue not a Chrome issue. Says CF is probably intercepting all clicks in Javascript and not handling the Ctrl-leftclick feature correctly.
 
CTRL-Click is working for me. it's a very handy shortcut. Win 11/Chrome Version 150.0.7871.116 (Official Build) (64-bit).

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Thanks for trying it. It works even after clicking Load More and using it on the other pages of threads?

I do use Norton Antivirus, so maybe that’s getting in the way, but it's weird that CTRL-Click almost always works from the first page of threads and not the others.

EDIT: In Chrome Incognito mode, CTRL-Click works on the other forum pages, but it takes 10-15 seconds for the new tab to open.

EDIT2: Middle-click on my mouse scroll wheel also works all of the time. ChatGPT says "Middle-click always opens a new tab, but Ctrl+click sometimes doesn't, that's a very strong indication of a JavaScript bug in the site."
 
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