229277 - CTRL-clicking between Google sections doesn't create new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 217262

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Scott McIntyre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031218 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031218 Firebird/0.7+

If I CTRL-click on a link, and it loads a new page, I expect it to load in a new tab.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.google.com/
2. CTRL-click on Images tab.
Actual Results:  
Images section is opened in same tab.

Expected Results:  
Images section should be opened in a new tab.  Existing tab should still show Google homepage.

If you right-click on the same links, and choose "Open in new tab", it does open in a new tab.

I posted this on the forums (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=39772) and someone looked into the HTML and found it is weird Google code specially handling the onclick.  But there still seems to be something wrong in Firebird, since a CTRL-click that generates a page load should logically use a new tab for that page.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

it looks like the onClick event in the page is eating the Ctrl-Click action
somehow, not sure why

Comment 2

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 217262 ***