1390872 - responsive design mode open pages in new tab instead of new window

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Responsive Design Mode, defect, P3)

Description

[burakboz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170628075643

Steps to reproduce:

My configuration (works with firefox 51.0):
lockPref("browser.link.open_external", 2);
lockPref("browser.link.open_newwindow", 2);
lockPref("browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external", 2);
lockPref("browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction", 0);
all of these seems same in about:config

Reproduce steps:
1- Open firefox,
2- Press CTRL + SHIFT + M
3- search anything in yandex and click one of search results
4- woa it's opening in new tab instead of new window

Now go back to search results page and disable responsive design mode, click one of the search results; it's opening in new window.


Actual results:

pages opening in new tab instead of new window


Expected results:

all links should be opened in a new window

Comment 1

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Thanks for the report!  

RDM unfortunately cheats a bit here because it has to reimplement this code path, so it aims for the default mode of opening in a new tab, so that we at least do _something_.

Ideally we would find a way to instead call the same path used for regular browsing so that prefs like these are respected.