161625 - [Middle-click to navigate using new tab] causes multiple links to appear active

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 9809

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

Description

[Wesley Moy]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020730
BuildID:    2002073008

Basic "knowledge" supporting bug claim:
In Mozilla Navigator, activating a link by any method (keyboard, left mouse
button, right mouse button, middle mouse button, etc.) causes a dotted 1px
border to appear around the link. When the link loses focus, the dotted lines
disappear.

Bug Description:
When viewing web pages in Navigator, my preferences are set so that
middle-clicking activates a link in a new tab. When returning to the original
tab, the dotted line remains. Usually, when clicking on the document other than
on the link, the dotted border disappears. On "problem" websites, the dotted
line remains. This can be repeated several times, on different links, causing
multiple links to have this border. (This also works with control-click.)

Reproducible: Sometimes (Attempts to create a simple HTML file with this problem
were unsuccessful)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Mozilla preferences, enable "Open tabs instead of windows
for->Middle-click or control-click of links in a web page" in
"Navigator-->Tabbed Browsing"
2. Visit a "problem" website (such as the one noted)
3. Middle-click (or control-click) a link
4. Go back to the original tab (keeping new tab open or not does not affect the bug)
5. Middle-click (or control-click) a different link
6. Go back to the original tab

Actual Results:  On each previously selected link, the dotted border remains.
Clicking using any button outside the link does nothing.

Expected Results:  On clicking outside the link, the dotted border should disappear.

This does not appear to strictly be a redraw issue. Causing a context-menu or
other window to move over the link does not make the dotted border disappear.

The default theme is being used.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9809 ***

Comment 2

[Trix Supremo]

verifying dupe