1390490 - "middle" or command-clicking on link opens new "pop up" window, instead of opening link in new tab

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P5)

Description

[Worcester12345]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20170810180547

Steps to reproduce:

Go to this site, and click on one of the links below, with command key on, or using "middle mouse button":

https://au.news.yahoo.com/wa/a/36701746/body-builder-meegan-heffords-death-blamed-on-protein-shakes/#page1

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Actual results:

new tab opens with
"javascript:void(window.open('//au.new...."

Regular (left mouse) clicking, opens the link in a new "popup" window.


Expected results:

Open link in new tab.

Comment 1

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

I think this is just something the site is doing to prevent opening in a new tab.

Comment 2

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

Does it behave differently in other browsers?

Comment 3

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to Andrew Overholt [:overholt] from comment #1)
> I think this is just something the site is doing to prevent opening in a new
> tab.

Yet I want it in a new tab. 

Isn't there a bug to "return controls to the user", or something like that?



(In reply to Andrew Overholt [:overholt] from comment #2)
> Does it behave differently in other browsers?

It does similar in IE. If there are others you want to try, please let us know.

Comment 4

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

(In reply to Worcester12345 from comment #3)
> (In reply to Andrew Overholt [:overholt] from comment #1)
> > I think this is just something the site is doing to prevent opening in a new
> > tab.
> 
> Yet I want it in a new tab. 
> 
> Isn't there a bug to "return controls to the user", or something like that?

I filed one and made this block it :)

> (In reply to Andrew Overholt [:overholt] from comment #2)
> > Does it behave differently in other browsers?
> 
> It does similar in IE. If there are others you want to try, please let us
> know.

Thank you for testing! If you could check in Chrome, too, that would be nice.

Comment 5

[Worcester12345]

Here is the bug I was thinking of:
Bug 565512 - Paper cuts: Being in Control

Specifically:
"Issues that causes people to feel like they aren't in control of their browser."