I've been mucking around in the about config; looking for this holy grail.

This is the behaviour I am used to on the desktop web browsers: Ctrl+click (or middle click) a link. Stay on the current page while new tab loads. Go to new tab when I'm ready for it.

Firefox on the N900 is nice, but Microb is my favorite. I hope somebody can make this happen. Long pressing links is a pain with fingers.