186193 - middle click on a link in the page for opening on new tab causes open it in the current page and new tab. history for current tab disappears.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Ahmet A. Akin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021216 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021216 Phoenix/0.5

in http://www.anandtech.com there is the "news" section on the left navigation
bar. when you middle click a news headline for opening it in a new tab, 
- it opens a new tab and loads the page there
- it also changes the current page to the link's page
- it erases current page's history, you cannot go back. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.anandtech.com
2. middle click or ctrl+click a link in "news" section on the left for opening
it on a new tab.
3. wait until pages loaded. 

Actual Results:  
a new tabs open for the releated link but current page also changes. "back" dost
not work in current page

Expected Results:  
a new tab opens and releated link's page loads there. current page does not change.

Phoenix and mozilla shows SAME results.

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

Confirming with Mozilla 1.3 on WinXP

->Event Handling

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

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Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->default contacts

Comment 4

[Robert Parenton]

-> WFM

Reporter no longer sees this either.