194229 - "Open Link in New Tab" opens blank does which cannot be closed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 194099

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Noname]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030219 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030219 Phoenix/0.5

When you mid-click a link, e.g. on www.heise.de, or use the "Open Link in New
Tab" right-click menu a new tab opens which is empty (about:blank) and closing
this tab closes the first tab (sometimes cannot be closed at all and first tab
is also not closed).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.heise.de
2. Mid-click or select "Open Link in New Tab" for any news article
3. New tab (Untitled) opens, focus is still on first tab
4a.Change to (Untitled) tab
4b.Alternatively: Stay on first tab
5. Press close button
6a.First tab is closed, (Untitled) tab stays
6b.Alternatively: (Untitled) tab is closed
7b.Mid-click the same (or any other) link again
8b.Two new tabs open up
Actual Results:  
Empty tab is opened, closing it closes first tab instead.
Other way round, closing the first tab closes the new (empty) one.

Expected Results:  
New tab should load selected link.

I searched all bugs of the last two days (because I think it is new in the
20030219 build) relating to "tab" but couldn't find a duplicate, so don't hit me
if it is a duplicate.

Comment 1

[Noname]

Another point relating to step 5. Do not close any tab and mid-click the same
link, this opens another new tab and loads the link correctly it that one.

Comment 2

[David Tenser [:djst]]

This is a regression in the latest nightlies.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194099 ***

Comment 3

[Sébastien Delahaye]

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