True, as soon as I wrote that I thought of the few counter-cases. But they are all genuine navigation cases: clicking a link in Google search results, clicking

True, as soon as I wrote that I thought of the few counter-cases. But they are all genuine navigation cases: clicking a link in Google search results, clicking an actual nav link, etc. Most of the time, I don't want to actually navigate, I want to open the referenced material like it is a foot/end note. Far too often, I accidentally forget to ctrl-click on a link, and lose my place in the original document. Especially for something like HN, which tends to be long, and somewhat dynamic, so that items can reorder themselves or have new items added into the DOM when reloaded.