219651 - cannot open URL from contact's address card in new tab

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Jack Tanner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Both Browser and Mail/News let you open a URL in a new tab, but not Address Book.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable the pref to allow Ctrl+click to open links in a new tab.
2. Click on a card in the "thread pane" of the address book that has a URL
specified.
3. Ctrl+click the URL that shows up in the "message pane".

Actual Results:  
The URL opened in an existing tab.

Expected Results:  
The URL should have opened in a new tab.

This may be related to bug 64030 (no context menus in Address Book).

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Confirming on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050913
SeaMonkey/1.0a. We are inconsistent with what we do on links, ctrl-click doesn't
seem to even work.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still fails, but now ...
ctrl+click loads in current page
middle click does nothing

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008020401 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre