152450 - No "Open Link in New Tab" on javascript: links

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55696

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[R.B.]

www.usatoday.com has very recently changed most links on their front page to the
form:

<a href=javascript:handleInterstitial("/usafront.htm")  class="lnav" >Home</a>

instead of the normal <a href="/usafront.htm" ...>Home</a>. (Of course, the
function handleInterstitial() inserts an ad before going to the wanted page, at
least the first time in a browsing session.) On such links the right-click menu
does not contain "Open Link in New Tab" nor "Open Link in New Window", which I
use very often. This is inconvenient and confusing (the first entry in the menu
is "Bookmark This Link", so I ended up with several unwanted bookmarks). Is
there any reason not to put "Open Link in New Tab" in the menu in this context ?

I use Linux 2002052709 1.0rc3, but I suppose this has not changed in recent builds.

Comment 1

[John Levon]

I guess this is a dupe of a WONTFIX concerning a form combobox that
fired off java which opened a link ...

Comment 2

[snebeling]

Similar to bug 138809.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55696 ***