Everybody already knows that middle-clicking or Control-clicking in Firefox opens a link in a new background tab, but reader Raghav points out that you can also open a link in a new foreground tab ...

To open that Safari link in a new tab, just tap on it with two fingers at once (as noted by a recent post on r/Apple).

Make Firefox automatically switch to newly opened tabs by opening the "Options" window, clicking "Tabs," and then enabling the "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately" option.

Tap Open Links and select Open New Tabs in Background. On an iPad, open the Settings app, tap Safari and tap the slider next to Open New Tabs in Background to activate the setting.

Firefox add-on adds an option to open a link in a new tab without loading the page until you switch to the tab.

Tweak a setting and Google will open a search result link in a new tab instead of your current tab.

If nothing occurs after you click a link & that you cannot open a link in Internet Explorer new window or tab, then this article may interest you.

I think making links open in a new tab would be far more annoying than allowing the users to determine how they want links to behave.