Unable to open contact in a new tab or window from a search list

After doing a search and viewing a list of contacts, I am unable to open the contact in a new tab (for edit, adding to event, or any of the drop-down features) on right-click. This prevents me from keeping one tab in my browser with the search list, and the other tab to open the contact for edit or other functions When I do a right-click, I get the drop down menu for View Contact, Edit Contact, Delete Contact, etc., and then if I do a right-click again on one of these functions so that I can open in a new tab, nothing happens. Is this what is intended?

I was able to recreate this in 3.1.3 and in the sandbox.

alice