1042589 - window.open(url, '_blank') opens in current window\tab instead of new one

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Owyn Tyler]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.131 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

window.open("http://mozilla.org", '_blank');


Actual results:

it opened mozilla.org in the current window instead of what was there


Expected results:

it should have opened a new tab with mozilla.org (Chrome does this), you just ignore "_blank" in FireFox 31

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

WFM in http://jsbin.com/wuroza/1/edit .

Please provide a testcase, check against a clean profile, and provide more detailed steps to reproduce if you reopen. Thanks!

Comment 2

[Owyn Tyler]

Not works for me. your js bin. I have Firefox 31, disabled all extensions, clicking that button and it replaces current window getting rid of jsbin website.

I ran firefox.exe -p and made a new clean profile, with it - it works fine, checked about:config to see bold options and found browser.link.open_newwindow set to 1, no idea what did set it ;s