302053 - open new window improperly carries over to other links

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Alan Messer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

The "open new window" attribute for links seems to carry over improperly to
links that do have have that attribute.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click on link with target="_blank" attribute --> opens in new Firefox
2.  close the new Firefox browser window
3.  return to the original Firefox
4.  click on link WITHOUT target="_blank" attribute
5.  opens (improperly) in new browser instance
Actual Results:  
A new instance of Firefox was improperly launched.

Expected Results:  
Should have replaced the original page with the contents of the link.

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050726
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005072606
WFM.
Can you reproduce this on safe mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Alan, can you reproduce this with the latest Firefox builds?

If not, please close this bug as WORKSFORME.

Thanks!