Ctrl + click does not work on links in the QuickSearch dropdown

When right clicking on a link, the user can, as expected, open the link in a new tab. However, when Ctrl + left clicking the link, instead of opening in a new page as expected, it opens in the current page.

I see two solutions to that:
1. Remove the custom code we have in a click event handler for the link and rely on the native behaviour of a button.
2. Add a clause in the listener so that it can open the link in a new tab if the Ctrl key is held down at the time of click.