We have some precedent for overriding a site. Popup blocking and
redirecting new windows to tabs for example. But I'm not sure how we could
technically do this here. If the site is doing some JS work (possibly
including async stuff) ultimately ending with an assignment to
window.location how would we know to override that to open in a new tab?

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:42 AM Andrew Overholt <overh...@mozilla.com>
wrote:

> Is there precedent for doing what a user intended which would be contrary
> to what the site is attempting?
>
> In the case that prompted my question, the user was attempting to
> middle-click open photos from a Facebook photo album in tabs but the
> middle-click was handled by the page's JS:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1365260. Maybe this is just a
> middle-click thing?
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