148100 - Enabling "middle click opens in tab" breaks middle click in Mail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 101955

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[david.hagood]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052309

If I have an email that contains a link to a web page, and I have enabled
"middle click opens link in new tab" enabled in Prefs, then middle clicking on
the link in the mail window does nothing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable "middle click opens in new tab" in prefs.
2. Receive email containing link to web page.
3. Middle click on link.

Actual Results:  Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  Either a) a new Browser window opens with the link in it, or
b) a new tab opens in the current browswer window. If no current browser window
is open, then a new browser is opened.

I would conjecture that the open in new tab code is confused by the fact that it
is in a mail/news window, and therefor cannot create a tab.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101955 ***

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup