When searching plans, you set your preferences and get a list of matching plans. You can then look at plan which seems interesting. But when return to the search page, all search preferences have to be entered again.
It would be better if the search page kept previous entered values OR a plan could be opened in a new browser tab, which keeps the search page unaltered.
We are going to be significantly improving plans later in the winter and we will definitly do this. What you can do is right click on the plan from plan search and open in new window or hold shift key when clicking (I know it is not perfect).