1274506 - firefox pinned tabs open non-same-origin links in the same tab when browser.link.open_newwindow* settings tell them to do so (but shouldn't)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[god]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0
Build ID: 20160512103502

Steps to reproduce:

1) change your about:config settings: 
browser.link.open_newwindow;1
browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external;3

2) Create a pinned tab, gMail is actually a pretty good example.

3) Open a link in some mail

4) According to documentation; pinned tabs should always open in a new window: 
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pinned-tabs-keep-favorite-websites-open
Links to other websites open in a new tab so that your Pinned Tab doesn't change.

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Now I know I have explicitly told Fx that I want _BLANK links to open in the same tab but there is no way I can actually tell Fx that pinned tabs should _not_ behave that way. Maybe a new set of settings or always override the behavior in pinned tabs?


Actual results:

External link opens up in the same pinned tab (So I must press back to go get my pinned tab back)


Expected results:

External links should open in a new tab

Comment 1

[god]

I have reproduced this on my local box (Fedora 23) but there is a pretty big chance it is reproducible on all platforms.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reporter,
Does this still reproduce for you when using a current version?

Comment 3

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard