jquery ui tab content can be opened as new browse pace

In previous versions of jQuery UI (<=1.8), the link for a remote tab would be swapped with a local link when the tabs are loaded. This made it possible to center click (aka, open link in new browser tab) on the tab, and it would deep link to the current page with the tab selected. This is the behavior I would like to maintain.

Old Tabs:

<div id="tabs">
  <ul>
    <li><a href="some-ajax-content.php" title="section1">Content 1/a></li>
    <li><a href="some-other-ajax-content.php" title="section2">Content 2</a></li>
  </ul>
  <div id="section 1">Loading Content...</div>
  <div id="section 2">Loading Content...</div>
</div>

After calling $('#tabs').tabs(), this would result:

<div id="tabs">
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#section1" title="section1">Content 1/a></li>
    <li><a href="#section2" title="section2">Content 2</a></li>
  </ul>
  <div id="section 1">Loading Content...</div>
  <div id="section 2">Loading Content...</div>
</div>

New Tabs (With UI >=1.9)

<div id="tabs">
  <ul>
    <li aria-controls="section1"><a href="some-ajax-content.php">Content 1/a></li>
    <li aria-controls="section1"><a href="some-other-ajax-content.php">Content 2</a></li>
  </ul>
  <div id="section 1">Loading Content...</div>
  <div id="section 2">Loading Content...</div>
</div>

After calling $('#tabs').tabs():

<div id="tabs">
  <ul>
    <li aria-controls="section1"><a href="some-ajax-content.php">Content 1/a></li>
    <li aria-controls="section1"><a href="some-other-ajax-content.php">Content 2</a></li>
  </ul>
  <div id="section 1">Loading Content...</div>
  <div id="section 2">Loading Content...</div>
</div>

After calling $('#tabs').tabs(), the href attribute is not swapped. This means that if a user clicks to open a link in a new tab, the will directly load the ajax content. As I would expect is common, the ajax content is just part of the page that shouldn't be rendered on it's own. Is there an easy way to change the markup to restore the previous behavior?