Is it possible to detect if a user has opened a link in a new tab?

Question

If a user is on your website and opens another link (also to your website) in a new tab, is it possible to differentiate this from the user just clicking on the link normall

Answer 1

The short answer is, no. The long answer is, if you are doing an ajaxy call from your pages to server-side methods, that could keep ttrack of the windows open (called within a short timeframe). It would be a sloppy, unreliable mess, and you couldn't differentiate between a new window or a tab for that matter.