I do that everywhere, but it seems to fail for LinkedIn: they don’t redirect the link if it’s not in the same tab.

Bad design on their part, another reason not to revisit! If a site breaks my workflow I generally stop using the site, rather than changing my workflow.

Though I'm guessing it would work in the cases being discussed in this article & thread: when you are navigating into a site (such as linkedin) from another, rather than following internal links.