Thank you for clearing that up. We need to have our remote plugin supported for all the most used versions of vcenter. I believe that many customers still use 6.7 U3. Our remote plugin would contain lot more new features which are not available in old plugin.
Since moving forward, vmware recommends the usage of remote plugin itself, we are focusing all our dev on remote plugin itself and not on the old local plugin. As a workaround, we can still right click on link and use "Open in New tab" option and still get it opened in another tab though. We still have to discuss and make a call on that.
