I generally dislike those kind of links. Unless you watch your status bar (given that it's turned on and your browser supports this feature), you don't know wha

I generally dislike those kind of links. Unless you watch your status bar (given that it's turned on and your browser supports this feature), you don't know what's going to happen. Whereas if you manually option-click/middle-click, you've got a behavior that you can count on (also, quite often you want open in background anyway).