129570 - "open in new window/tab" could be inproved

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18808

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Ausbrooks]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205
BuildID:    2002020511

One of the very, very, very few things that IE is nicer about than
Netscape/Mozilla is how it treats "open in new window" events.  When one opens a
link in a new window under IE, the new link has the same "back" history as the
parent page (i.e. the "back" button will take you to a new copy of the parent).
 I prefer this behavior to the traditional Netscape way of making all new pages
virtual orphans.  Not a really big deal, but I hate it when IE does _anything_
better than Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.middle click on link to open it in a new window
2.goof around and accidentally close original page
3.try to hit the back button to get back to the original page
4.curse

Actual Results:  I was mildly annoyed

Expected Results:  I can't believe I'm saying this, but:  emulate the IE
behavior in the stead of the traditional (but inferior) Netscape behavior.

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18808 ***