455268 - cntrl-click opens new tab, but also follows link in original tab.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151142

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Philip Peake]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

This may be an issue with the website software (but I don't see how...).
Only on the website listed above:

Cntrl-click in a link and the link is opened in a new tab (correct).
BUT the link is followed and the same content displayed in the original tab (incorrct).

Using the middle mouse button rather than cntrl-click works correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.fortmoe.com/forum/index.php
2.Cntr-click on "Fort Moe Arms Forum"
3.Original tab also displays content of following the link.


Expected Results:  
Original tab unchanged, new tab opened displaying content of having followed the link.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

<td class="row1" height="50" width="100%" onclick="window.location.href='viewforum.php?f=15'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor=""" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor="808080"" style="">
<span class="forumlink">
<a class="forumlink" href="viewforum.php?f=15">Fort Moe Arms Forum</a>
<br/>
</span>


CTRL+click opens the link in a new tab and then the event bubbles
to <td> which acts on it in its 'onclick' handler, right?

FWIW, Opera and Safari have the same behaviour.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Yikes.  The site should use display:block for the link instead of using onclick to fake some (but not many) of the behaviors of a link in the part of the table cell not occupied by the forum name text.

A fix for bug 151142 would take care of this, while a fix for bug 55696 / bug 251137 alone might kinda make it worse.