218682 - middle-clicking link in XHTML (application/xhtml+xml) page brings up autoscroll

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 213250

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[RafG]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030816 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030908 Firebird/0.6.1+

Normally, middle-clicking a link opens the page in a new tab.  However,
middle-clicking a link in an XHTML page brings up the autoscroll 'cursor' and
fails to open the page.  Note that this apparently only happens when the page
has an 'application/xhtml+xml' MIME type.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure that autoscrolling is enabled and that clicking the middle mouse-
button is set to open a page in a new tab. Or simply start Firebird with a fresh
profile.
2. Visit the URL: http://users.pandora.be/rguns/middleclick.xhtml .
3. Click the link with the middle mouse-button.

Actual Results:  
- The autoscroll 'cursor' turns up.
- The link is not opened.

Expected Results:  
- Autoscrolling should not be triggered.
- The link should have opened in a new tab.
In short, it should function identically to the behavior on HTML (text/html) pages.

This is reproducable every time, both on Linux and on Windows.

Comment 1

[RafG]

I apologize, I just discovered that this bug is a duplicate of bug 213250.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213250 ***

Comment 2

[Gilles Durys]

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