2054463 - Related articles are not opening on click

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Gabi Cheta [:Gabi] Desktop QA]

Attachment: 2026-07-13_15h36_29.mp4

Affected versions

• Firefox Nightly 154.0a1

Affected platforms

• Windows 11 x64

Untested platforms
macOS, Ubuntu

Steps to reproduce

1. Enable the crossword widget
2. Click the links from related articles

Expected result

• Particle article should open in new tab

Actual result

• Articles are not opening on click
• Articles are opened from context menu - open link in a new tab

Regression range

• New feature

Additional notes

• See the attached screencast

Comment 1

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

I believe this is because the links target "_blank", and our sandboxing on the iframe doesn't have allow-popups: https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/rev/7d5b291d2351f7d04c504b03fa22ec3dcdf81b54/browser/extensions/newtab/content-src/components/Widgets/Crossword/Crossword.jsx#187

Comment 2

[Amber Meryman]

from Particle:

update the iframe sandbox from:
sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" to:
sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"

allow-popups enables the new tab, while allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox prevents the Particle article from inheriting the widget’s sandbox restrictions.

Comment 3

[Maxx Crawford [:maxx]]

Attachment: Bug 2054463 - Allow the Crossword widget iframe to open related article links in new tabs r?#home-newtab-reviewers

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/d673999fa2c5
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/79b4c73ac646
Allow the Crossword widget iframe to open related article links in new tabs r=thecount

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/2ab51a110655
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e7b199b6bfee
Allow the Crossword widget iframe to open related article links in new tabs r=thecount

Comment 6

[Serban Stanca [:SerbanS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e7b199b6bfee

Comment 7

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/79b4c73ac646

Comment 8

[Gabi Cheta [:Gabi] Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed in Firefox 154.0a1 and Firefox 152.0.6 train hop addon.