Closed Bug 227314 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

New Hotmail code removes the ability to open new tabs easily from within Hotmail

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

x86
All
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 138198

People

(Reporter: paulshuttle, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031027 Firebird/0.7+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031027 Firebird/0.7+ In the previous version of Hotmail (i.e. before a few days ago), links in e-mails opened up in a new tab as normal, via the mouse wheel button. In the new revision (i.e. NOW), this is no longer possible, and clicking the middle mouse button on any e-mail link does nothing. Links can still be opened by right clicking -> Open Link in New Tab, but this is obviously an inconvenience. There's a thread about this issue over at the MozillaZine forums here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=283694 I'm not sure if there's anything that can be done to fix this, but here's hoping. Going by that thread, it appears to happen in all Firebird releases, and I don't see anything which mentions this is a Windows only problem. Unfortunately I don't have Linux installed to check. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in to an e-mail account on www.hotmail.com 2. Open an e-mail with a link 3. Try and open the link into a new tab using the middle mouse button Actual Results: Nothing happens. Expected Results: Opened the link into a new tab.
Additional: This also appears to be the case for any links from within the Hotmail system - So even opening e-mails themselves in tabs is made impossible, unless you use the aforementioned workaround.
This isn't really a bug, more of an enhancement request. It's a Javascript issue. Rather than providing a proper web address on an href, Hotmail now uses onclick events to call a JS function.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138198 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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