1629248 - form post method with target="_blank" property sends get request in firefox75.0

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1629441

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[yemoon]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0

Steps to reproduce:

1.code:
<form action="http://www.xxxx.com" method="post" target="_blank">
<input type="text" name="name" value="hello">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
2.submit

Actual results:

it sends get request.
if delete target="_blank" or change _blank to other value(_self,etc),it works find.

Expected results:

send post request

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

Thank you for your bug report.
Is this form in an HTML file that is accessed via file:// ? If yes then this is the same problem as bug 1629441.

Comment 3

[Tom S. (please needinfo tschuster)]

Marking as dupe for now.