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Improve navigation from the browse page to a definition

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Description

To me, the primary next step and purpose of the browse page is to go to a "definition" details (page or popup). This is true whether I am just browsing or working on curation.

On this page I am naturally drawn to the main text for a component: its name and version as these are the main data items in this list. If I click on this text I am taken outside of the site to the original package repository (such as https://crates.io/crates/actix-web or https://nuget.org/packages/32feet.NET/3.5.0.3 )

To get to a definition, there are only two tiny icons on the right (and away from the name and version that I am looking at):
- a magnifier (which is most often associated with a search function in most web app) and not so often with a link to a detail.
- a "copy link" button (which is a rather uncommon feature) as we should be able to open a link and not have to worry how this link can be copied: copy of a link is a basic builtin browser feature. (That later issue is handled in #598 )

I would expect the main text to link to a definition and behave as a proper web link. The off site links to package repo pages should be available but not the primary link items.

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