1513437 - Command-click does not open links in a new tab on ftc.gov

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Tim Smith (inactive) 👨‍🔬 [:tdsmith]]

STR: Visit https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faqs#place, hold command, and click on one of the external links to the credit bureaus.

What happens: The event handler on the link interferes, and the "warning, you are about to leave the FTC website" page appears in the current window.

Expected: The credit bureau website opens in a new tab.

Right-clicking on the link and selecting "open in new tab" has the desired behavior. I would like for command-clicking on the link to do the same thing.

The functionality here seems to be provided by the extlink_extra Drupal module: https://www.drupal.org/project/extlink_extra

Comment 1

[Tim Smith (inactive) 👨‍🔬 [:tdsmith]]

A matching bug report against extlink_extra: https://www.drupal.org/project/extlink_extra/issues/2747235

Comment 2

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Hi Tim,

Chrome seems to have the same behavior as Firefox. However, I think this is actually a site issue related to Drupal, not a Firefox one. Will assign a component and hopefully, someone can sort it out.

Comment 3

[Andreas Farre [:farre]]

This is definitely a site issue, they have a click handler that redirects to "https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/now-leaving".