1138176 - Alt+search engine selection from search bar no longer opens new tab in Firefox 35 and 36

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[ds332]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150222232811

Steps to reproduce:

In Firefox 35 and 36 on both Windows and OSX, type text in search bar, hold down Alt key and select a search engine other than the default


Actual results:

page opens in current tab, just like if Alt was not held down


Expected results:

page should open in new tab, like it does for default search engine when Alt+Enter is pressed

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

oldui 2014-09-02-03-02-02-mozilla-central-firefox-34.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64
oldui 2014-10-01-03-02-05-mozilla-central-firefox-35.0a1.ru.linux-x86_64
oldui 2014-11-02-03-02-04-mozilla-central-firefox-36.0a1.ru.linux-x86_64

oldui 2014-10-03-00-40-03-mozilla-aurora-firefox-34.0a2.en-US.linux-x86_64
oldui 2014-11-10-00-40-02-mozilla-aurora-firefox-35.0a2.ru.linux-x86_64

g 2014-12-15-00-40-08-mozilla-aurora-firefox-36.0a2.en-US.linux-x86_64

g firefox-34.0.5.en-US.linux64
b firefox-35.0.ru.linux64

Comment 2

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

(In reply to ds332 from comment #0)

> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> In Firefox 35 and 36 on both Windows and OSX, type text in search bar, hold
> down Alt key and select a search engine other than the default
> 
> 
> Actual results:
> 
> page opens in current tab, just like if Alt was not held down
> 
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> page should open in new tab, like it does for default search engine when
> Alt+Enter is pressed

After selecting the non-default engine, do you start the search using alt+click on the engine icon, or alt+enter?

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

(in my comment #1, I meant alt-click on the engine icon)

Comment 4

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

(In reply to [:Aleksej] from comment #3)
> (in my comment #1, I meant alt-click on the engine icon)

I asked because I can reproduce the problem with alt+click, but I can't reproduce it with alt+enter.

"no longer" in the bug summary seem to indicate this is a regression, which isn't possible if we talking about clicking icons that didn't exist before.

Being able to press alt+enter to open in a new tab is useful, but if you are clicking, there's already ctrl/command+click that opens in a new tab, so I'm not sure what's really wanted here. We took care of fixing alt+enter and ctrl/command+click in bug 1106101.

Comment 5

[[:Aleksej]]

> "no longer" in the bug summary seem to indicate this is a regression, which isn't possible if we talking about clicking icons that didn't exist before.

It works with Firefox 34, but not 35 or 36.

Comment 6

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

(In reply to [:Aleksej] from comment #5)
> > "no longer" in the bug summary seem to indicate this is a regression, which isn't possible if we talking about clicking icons that didn't exist before.
> 
> It works with Firefox 34, but not 35 or 36.

Well, that points to bug 1106101 then.

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Alt+Click is not a standard behavior for opening links in a new tab. Assuming Alt+Enter and Cmd/Ctrl+Click work, this is WONTFIX/INVALID.