1641350 - Dragging middle mouse button over history items opens an invalid tab

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P5)

Description

[Stuart Orford]

Attachment: Screenshot of History menu

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Switch on menus (View > Toolbars > Menu Bar)
2. Open the History menu
3. Click and hold the middle mouse button on a history entry
4. Drag the mouse up or down to another history entry
5. Release the middle button

Actual results:

A tab opens with an invalid URL of

place:sort=4&maxResults=15

Expected results:

The highlighted history entry should open

Comment 1

[Stuart Orford]

Tested in 78.0a1 (2020-05-27) (64-bit) on Windows 10

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

This is similar results to Bug 1531367, but this is a different steps and regression window.

Regression window:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/pushloghtml?fromchange=f6eebcc14c22762f521fb567a9588963b8720592&tochange=61570c16c2d564c24fab36713fb169c4144453e9

Suspect: 36b949bef79831ec07807ffa4aead2e60f5f7409 Olli Pettay — Bug 1089326, make <button> hit testing similar to other elements which may have some content, and for click target find the common (interactive) ancestor, r=masayuki