1383438 - when the Preference under General "Open windows in a new tab instead" is checked the new URL loads over the current tab when opening a url from the library

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[PJAL]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170613080547

Steps to reproduce:

Open FF preferences and check option "Open new windows in a new tab instead. " Use this URL in the first tab  "chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul" to display FF Library. 

Locate a URL in the first tab library and double click.  


Actual results:

The first tab displaying the FF Library is overwritten by the clicked URL


Expected results:

FF should create a new tab and load the clicked URL in the new tab and leave the Library tab unchanged.

If select a URL from the FF Library in the first tab and right click to present the context menu then select the Open in new tab menu item it works a prescribed.  This should be the way it works if I just double click with the Open preference checked.

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

I think it's right. Open item from Library window will open it on current tab. The context menu also show Open instead of Open in new tab menu item as bold.