205462 - Keyboard shortcut to open link in new tab will open multiple tabs if keys aren't released immediately

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 71074

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

Description

[Robert Bobbson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

If the Insert key is held down while clicking on a link, this opens the link in
a new tab.  However, if the key isn't released immediately, another tab will
open... then another... then another.  The same thing happens with the open link
in new tab in the background shortcut.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. hold down insert key
2. click on link
3. don't release insert key
Actual Results:  
You can end up with 20 or 30 tab open

Expected Results:  
I think that only one new tab should have been created.

Comment 1

[Jason M. Abels]

Bug reporter: According to my research, you are using the Insert key
incorrectly. The insert key is for keyboard-only browsing. You should not be
using a mouse click with this key. The keyboard shortcut to open a regular click
up in a new tab is CTRL.

Specifically, this is designed to work this way. You are not supposed to hold
down the INSERT key. Marking as Invalid

Please see bug 185270 for more information in the Insert key functionality.

Comment 2

[Robert Bobbson]

If this is unintended behavior, and it is, then it should be treated as a bug.

If a user can do something, then the code needs to be able to deal with it.

I wrote a much longer e-mail with more detail than this, but this is all I am 
putting here...

I have also downgraded this to "minor".  Trivial might be a better severity...

Heck, I'm just curious to see if bugzilla will let an ordinary person change 
the status of a bug.  Unless I don't understand how this is supposed to work, 
Aaron Leventhal should be the person tasked with deciding this is an invalid 
submission.

There's a good chance that I don't understand how this works, of course, and, 
if I'm wrong, I apologize.

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

This bug doesn't have anything to do with using the mouse simultaneously with
the keyboard. 

This is a valid bug, but I think this a DUP of another bug somewhere. I remember
seeing a bug similar to this with Accel+N.

Incidentally, IE has the same problem if you hold down Ctrl+N.

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

Jesse, have you seen a more general bug on this?

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

I found 71074 by searching for bugs in which I have made comments containing
"repeat".

(Robert, Bugzilla allows the reporter of a bug to change most of the bug's fields.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71074 ***