141405 - Control-click on some links causes both current tab and new tab to load linked page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 89296

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Justin Watt]

Steps to reproduce:
1) Go to http://www.google.com/
2) Control-click on the "Images", "Groups", or "Directory" links

Behavior: current tab and new tab both load the linked page that was control-clicked

Expected behavior: The current tab should remain on current page and only the
new page should loaded the linked page that was control-clicked.

Reason for behavior: ?

Comment 1

[Kyle Krom]

I also see this behavior. Using Win95 / 2002042510

These links on Google's home page include attributes like this:

href="/imghp?hl=en" onClick="return c('/imghp?hl=en');"

I presume that this bug is caused by the onClick?

Comment 2

[Justin Watt]

I tried to isolate the behavior to those attributes in the <A> tag, but the
erroneous behavior does not happen when I save Google's index page locally and
control-click on the link. It only happens to the remote version of the page.

Comment 3

[Michael Lefevre]

it's because those google links have onClick code, so that any entries in the
form can be carried over into whichever type of search you've selected.

the onClick code opens the selected link in the current tab (retaining any entry
in the input box), while mozilla opens the link in a new tab from the control+click.

not sure if mozilla could do anything about this (catching the scripted form
submit into the new tab instead??)

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I still think we should be using capture for contentAreaClick, not bubbling...
then this problem would not arise.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89296 ***

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

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