253736 - Tabs invisible in feature- and toolbar-less window opened by javascript

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 243893

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Mathias Wittlock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

Opening a link into a new tab (middle-click) while in a smaller window opened by
javascript, where all toolbars and such are hidden, the page gets opened, in a
new tab in that window, but there is no way you can see that tab but it appears
if closing the current one (Ctrl+W). I will add a minimal testcase as soon as
this is added.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
In testcase:
1. Open page.html in testcase and click the link.
2. In the new window, middle-mouse click the link.
3. If you try to close the window you will get the warning that you got 2 tabs
open (unless that warning is disabled, of course), pressing ctrl+w will reveal
the second tab.
Actual Results:  
New tabs are invisible until current one is closed down and you never see the
actual tabs.

Expected Results:  
What I expect I'm not really sure about... Having several tabs in a window
opened by javascript isn't the best way (as these windows tend to have limited
size), but I can imagine making them open in the "main window" isn't easier
either. Perhaps someone has a good suggestion as to what a better behaviour
would be, I still think the current behaviour is not the best way to do it...

Comment 1

[Mathias Wittlock]

Attachment: minimal testcase

Could have made it one-page, but with two different pages it's easier to
discern the two tabs in the popup. Hope that's ok... :)

Comment 2

[Thomas Rutter]

I can confirm this in Firefox 20040906 (1.0 PR branch)

If a window has hidden toolbars, then opening new tabs will not show the tab
bar.  However, it is possible to switch tabs with Ctrl+Tab

Here is another testcase:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/09/08.html#a8195

Steps to reproduce:

1. Click on the "comment" link at the bottom of an entry to open popup.
2. Middle-click a link in the popup to open a new tab

Actual Result:
Tab bar remains hidden, tabs can only be switched using Ctrl+Tab

Expected Results:
Tab bar becomes visible.

Can somebody please set this to confirmed?

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243893 ***

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Verifying old and obvious dupes. Sorry for bugspam.