When you right-click on a link (I am, of course, assuming you don't have a 1-button-mouse Mac, in which case I think the equivalent is holding down the mouse button), you do get the option to open the link in a new window. That's saved me countless times.
Still, I miss the Latest functions. Then again, Forum 3.0 is still in beta and John might not have gotten around to wrapping something that is known to work into something that isn't known to work (following the 1 bug at a time principle).
When you right-click on a link (I am, of course, assuming you don't have a 1-button-mouse Mac, in which case I think the equivalent is holding down the mouse button), you do get the option to open the link in a new window. That's saved me countless times. Yeah, I know, but that clutters up the screen with browsers (which Windoze 98 is allergic to, and reduces the time to the next therapeutic reboot). And then I get confused as to which is the "real" slave browser.