Add Middle Mouse Button support to AssetStore notifications panel (GreaseMonkey script)

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AssetStore notifications window doesn’t allow you to open links into new tab (with middle mouse button).. for every link, you need to:
10 – Click your profile icon to open drop down menu
20 – Click notifications button
30 – Scroll down the list to find interesting item
40 – Click single item to navigate into that page (within current page)
50 – Goto 10 (do everything again for each item and wait page loads..)

Workaround:
use browser plugin to inject middle mouse button events into those items!

GreaseMonkey script:
https://gist.github.com/unitycoder/4f3d3cc53ce1130f4ed6c9a108877904

How it works:
– custom script is injected into asset store page
– it overrides XMLHttpRequest to catch notification list contents when it gets requested (this is required, since the div itself doesnt contain enough info to create store link)
– from received JSON data, notification item key image id and asset store item ID is parsed
– then on 2nd pass, notification list items are iterated through, each div gets middle mouse button click event added, with url to be opened in new tab for that asset