Middle click on image doesn't open new image in browser

(#798) Bug Needs triage desktop media

Observed behaviour

When middle clicking an image in the desktop app, instead of opening in an external browser (or, admittedly, a different action, but that's my preference) the middle click is converted to a scroll action, as though you had clicked on text. Reviewing the interaction in the debugger, it appears an attempt was made to handle it separately (I can see there's an OnAuxClick handler right below that would seem to handle it properly), but it's not being called. Correct me if that's not what the OnAuxClick handler is meant to do, but I think that's the most intuitive behaviour.

Reproduction steps

  1. Open Fluxer
  2. Navigate to a channel or DM with an image
  3. Middle click on the image
  4. Observe scroll indicator appears, instead of image opening in browser.

Build information

Canary Desktop 2026.828.171905, Web 2026.828.184549, Windows 11 10.0.26200 (x64), Electron 42.10.0, Chrome 148.0.7778.280, Node 24.18.1, Locale en-US

Platform

macOS, Windows, Linux

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