I vaguely recall, back when middle mouse buttons became a de facto standard, using this functionality. I have since obviously completely forgotten about it (and instead just resort to using scrollbars like a sucker - although I use trackpad gestures on computers that support it, oh how I love you trackpad gestures!).
For me, in Chrome on Windows, I can middle click on any old link I want, no problems. The only issue I am able to reproduce is the popup blocker warning when clicking on tracked links in Firefox for Windows (since I don’t have IE11 installed). Oh, the joys of cross-platform cross-browser compatibility testing!
