184688 - onClick being called on right or middle click

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 180078

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Raymond Cassella]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

If a link has an onClick defined, it is called when right- or middle-clicking on
the link.
This is happening in Phoenix 0.5 on Windows 2000.
It does not occur in Mozilla 1.1 or 1.21.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.google.com/search?q=stuff
2.Right (or Middle) click on the "Groups" tab at the top

Actual Results:  
You are taken directly to the Groups search results without a context menu
appearing (or new tab being created).

Expected Results:  
A context menu should appear (or link should open in new tab).

The anchor tag for the link in question is:
a id=t2a class=q
href=http://groups.google.com/groups?q=stuff&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg
onClick="return b('http://groups.google.com/groups','wg',event);"

See also http://www.mathlab.sunysb.edu/~cassella/phoenix_onclick.html

Comment 1

[David P James]

I can partially confirm this with the Linux build 20021209

Middle-clicking on the Groups tab opens the link in the same tab, rather than in
a new tab. However, right-clicking calls up a context menu, and, selecting "Open
in New Tab" behaves as expected.

Likewise, the test case opens up two tabs from a middle-click, the active tab
going to the Phoenix project page and the new tab going to mozilla.org. But
again, right-clicking behaves as expected.

Can anyone else confirm the reporter's claim in Windows? This bug may have to be
split into two.

Comment 2

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180078 ***

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Mass verifying of old bugs.