204742 - Selecting bookmark from Bookmarks menu opens new window

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[hub-san]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030504
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030504

When I select website from "Bookmarks" of menu item, Mozilla Firebird for
MacOSX(2003-05-06-08-trunk) opens new window.  However, when I select website
from Bookmarks sidebar or Bookmarks Toolbar, I don't see this problem.  Plus,
when I tested Mozilla Firebird for Linux(2003-05-05-08-trunk), I don't see this
problem.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on menu "Bookmarks"
2.Select bookmark website.


Actual Results:  
Mozilla Firebird opens a new window.  It loads webpage on new window instead of
the current window. 

Expected Results:  
Mozilla Firebird should not open a new window.  It should load webpage on the
current window.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using Firebird/2003-05-03.

Comment 2

[Derek Scott]

I stumbled upon a temporary workaround using the Tabbrowser Extensions, aka the
Tabbed Browser extension,
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/xpi/tabextensions_en.xpi (Direct link to the
installer).

1. Select "Options..." from the Tools menu
2. Click the Extensions button
3. Make sure "Tabbrowser Extensions" is hilighted and click the Settings button
4. Click the first disclosure triangle and then click the second one also.
5. Click on the text labeled "Advanced"
6. Click the checkbox labeled "Middle-click or command-click of a Bookmark"
7. Click the checkbox labeled "Activate command-click for bookmarks and history
with old Mozilla/Netscape (Please check if you cannot use this action)"

This should fix the problem, or at least it did in my case.  Is there anything
the Tabbed Browser extension can't do? ;)

Comment 3

[Derek Scott]

did someone just try to send me an e-mail message related to my comment? I think
I just accidentally deleted it, oops.

Comment 4

[Jim Strickland]

I can confirm that this bug still exists with with the following build of
Mozilla Firebird:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030513
Mozilla Firebird/0.6

I tried the fix listed, using the Tabbrowser extension, but it did not work for
me. I know this can be gotten around by using the sidebar, but that takes up
precious space. However, by using the bookmarks file menu item it does not take
long for a plethora of windows to accumulate, using up system resources.

Comment 5

[Jim Strickland]

I can confirm that this bug still exists with with the following build of
Mozilla Firebird:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030513
Mozilla Firebird/0.6

I tried the fix listed, using the Tabbrowser extension, but it did not work for
me. I know this can be gotten around by using the sidebar, but that takes up
precious space. However, by using the bookmarks file menu item it does not take
long for a plethora of windows to accumulate, using up system resources.

Comment 6

[Chris Casciano]

*** Bug 206184 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jeff Grossman]

This bug still exists in Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US;
rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030601 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam

Comment 9

[David Hyatt]

Attachment: Make sure oncommand events initialize their modifier fields to false

Comment 10

[David Hyatt]

Technically I should find some way to accurately initialize these, but for now,
I've set them all to false and added a FIXME.

Comment 11

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Comment on attachment 129213 [details] [diff] [review]
Make sure oncommand events initialize their modifier fields to false

r/sr=bryner, but please go ahead and initialize event.clickCount and .widget to
0 and nsnull, respectively.

Comment 12

[David Hyatt]

Fixed.

Comment 13

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change