137342 - http_referer for "Open Link in New Tab" is wrong if the link is in sidebar panel

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Koike Kazuhiko]

http_referer for "Open Link in New Tab" or "Open Link in New Window"
is wrong if the link is in sidebar panel.

Steps to reproduce:

(1) Add the sidebar panel for test from:
 <http://kazhik.net/mozilla/test/2051.shtml>

(2) Navigate to somewhere.
 ex. <http://www.mozilla.org/>

(3) Left-Click the "Click this link" in new "Test Sidebar" panel.

(4) Right-Click the "Click this link" and select "Open Link in New Tab"
 or "Open Link in New Window" from context menu.


Actual result:
 In step 3, http_referer is <http://kazhik.net/mozilla/test/2051s.html>.
 In step 4, http_referer is <http://www.mozilla.org/>.

Expected result:
 http_referer should be <http://kazhik.net/mozilla/test/2051s.html>
 in both cases.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

-> tabbed browser

Comment 2

[Garoo]

I just stumbled on that bug too, and I'm just wondering why 
there's not much reaction about it here: isn't it a serious 
privacy  issue when the browser keeps telling everyone what I 
have visited before?

Granted, the importance is relative, and I'm affected only
because I store my bookmarks in a custom-made HTML sidebar, 
so I guess only a minority is affected, but it's still a real 
privacy problem.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Offtopic:

> isn't it a serious privacy  issue when the browser keeps telling everyone
> what I have visited before?

It is. but it is inherent in the referrer. Unfortunately, the referrer is common
on the web. See bug 55477.

Comment 4

[jag (Peter Annema)]

There's a difference though between "send the url of the page that linked to the
page I'm going to" and "send the url of the page I'm currently at, even if I
manually typed the url, clicked on a bookmarklet or clicked a link in a sidebar
panel".

Comment 5

[Arun Prasannan (polar)]

The correct referrer is shown in both steps.