218869 - javascript navigation using document.location does not work in new tab

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55696

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Aleksey Lazar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

document.location is lost when opening in new tab with a scrollwheel click, or
control+click.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to zeldman.com
2. Under 6–7 September 2003 open the "Beta Validate" link in new tab.

Actual Results:  
Validation error because the referer doesn't exist.

Expected Results:  
Should be same thing as if the link were just clicked to load in same tab.

Comment 1

[Bob Firth]

Since the javascript document.location is only determined once the new tab is
open, it resolves to "about:blank" instead of the URI for the page in the
original tab.

--> Tabbed Browser

When you right click a javascript link there is no option to "open link in new
tab". Should ctrl-click be a valid action?

Added "javascript navigation" to summary.
Added "qawanted" keyword.

Comment 2

[Aleksey Lazar]

Updated URL: http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0803a.shtml

Comment 3

[Bob Firth]

setting new URL.

reassigning to tabbed ppl.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

dupe of "RFE: "Open a JavaScript link in a new window" (or new tab)"

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