201003 - location.href=blabla should open in new tab when Ctrl-key is pressed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55696

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Ron Arts]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313

Subject says it. Take for example a select dropdown box with
an onchange= that uses a location.href= to go to
a new page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:


Actual Results:  
The page loads in the current tab instead of in a new one.

Expected Results:  
The page should open in a new tab if Ctrl is held done during selecting
(or even if the middle mouse button is used).

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55696 ***

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Verified Duplicate - I think. The request in bug 55696 is for the
link to open in a new window; here the request is a new tab.

At any rate, this is not a JavaScript Engine issue. JavaScript Engine
deals with the abstract JavaScript programming language. Specifically,
the low-level  objects such as String(), Number(), and Date(). The JS
Engine does not contain browser or DOM objects like window, document,
links, hrefs, events, etc.

If this bug is not actually a duplicate of bug 55696, please reopen
and reassign to the Event Handling component. In the meantime, you
will be cc'ed on bug 55696. If you want to add comments there about
a new tab instead of a new window, that would be welcome.

Thank you for this report -