185206 - ctrl+click only loads one tab at a time

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Richard A. Wells]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

I can't open a set of tabbed windows "simultaneously", i.e. by quickly
ctrl+clicking on a set of links in a page and having the tabs all open in the
background.  

Say I'm reading /. in a window.  I shift+click on an article link and
shift+click on the /. thread.  The article will start loading in tab 2 (with /.
itself still in tab 1).  IF the article loads completely before I ctrl+click on
the thread link, the thread will (correctly) load in a new tab (tab 3). 
However, if the page in tab 2 is still loading ctrl+click on the thread link
will cause the thread to load in tab 1.  It doesn't seem to be a
keyboard-handling bug (i.e. keeping modifier keys down or not between clicks
doesn't matter):  it seems purely to be a function of whether the page in tab 2
is still loading.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure tabbed browing preference is set to have ctrl+click open new tab.
2. Got to http://slashdot.org/ (or any page with lots of links).
3. Try to ctrl+click on a bunch of links to load them in tabs, without losing
the original tab.

Actual Results:  
First ctrl+click that occurs while another tab is still loading will cause that
link to be opened in the first tab.

Expected Results:  
Open a new tab.

Comment 1

[Jason Bassford]

WFM. 2002121304 / XP.

Comment 2

[Frederic Bezies]

WFM too, 2 hours old CVS based build, WinXP-Sp1.

Comment 3

[Richard A. Wells]

Also, I'm on a DSL (~300-400kbps) connection on a slower machine (233MHz), so
mebbe one doesn't see this as easily with fast networks and connections.

Comment 4

[Joe Infla]

wfm. Richard, can you still reproduce this?  If so, would you try with a new
profile & recent build?  Please comment in the bug either way.

Comment 5

[Richard A. Wells]

The problem is still there, though it is more subtle.  

Again, using /. as the example:

I scroll down to where I can see Older Stuff, firmly press and hold the Ctrl
key, and then click, in sequence, on a bunch of links (that are within the same
site, in case that's part of the subtlety).  At some point I get "ahead" of some
queue and new tabs stop appearing and visual feedback of link points stops
happening. 

Wait until I get mouse feedback again.

Release the Ctrl key, SCROLL THE PAGE TO THE TOP, again press and hold Ctrl key
(firmly :-), and Ctrl+Click on another link.  This one takes over the main window.

It's not completely easy to reproduce, but I've convinced myself that it isn't
just sloppy keyboard+mouse chording on my part.  It really feels like something
to do with timing, window event-handling, and modifier keys.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Windows 2000 with all patches up to 2003.09.04.

Comment 6

[Alex Hirzel]

Shift+CTRL+Click will open in a background tab, CTRL+Click opens a foreground tab.

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

unable to reproduce on windows 1.7 beta build.