265704 - Opening a link in a new tab results in a blank tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Carson Gaspar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041022 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041022 Firefox/1.0

This is with AVIARY_1_0_20040515_BRANCH as of 2004-10-22 at 17:00 US/Eastern

Either right click on a link and select "Open Link in New Tab" or middle-click
on a link. A new tab is created, but it is a blank (Untitled) tab.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041023 Firefox/1.0

WFM

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

if the link in question is a javascript link, that would be the problem.  If so,
this is a dupe.

Comment 3

[Andrew Weiser]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

This is entirely reproducible for me on Windows NT 4.0.  *Every* link I
ctrl-click on (not just Javascript links) opens an empty (Untitled) tab.

Comment 4

[Andrew Weiser]

in fact, this bug is critical for me as it effectively means I can't use tabbed
browsing and therefore can't use this version of the browser.  It's back to the
PR for me...

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

disable all extensions and try again , preferably with FF1.0RC1

Comment 6

[Andrew Weiser]

(In reply to comment #5)
> disable all extensions and try again , preferably with FF1.0RC1

Hi,

I tried that already.  I had tabbrowser extensions (by Shimoda Hiroshi), and
suspecting that it might be incompatible with FF1.0RC1, I uninstalled it.  That
was the only extension I had, but the problem still happened after restarting FF.

Andrew

Comment 7

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

TBE = Evil and should not be used with FF
It causes loads of problems on all OS.
Try a new install with newly installed profile , that should fix it

Comment 8

[alex]

I have found this to be a problem on Win32 only. Appeared at some time between
2004-09-30 build (last I downloaded before my current version) and 2004-10-22
build. Has persisted through 1.0rc2 on Win32. 

Comment 9

[Andrew Weiser]

(In reply to comment #7)
> TBE = Evil and should not be used with FF
> It causes loads of problems on all OS.
> Try a new install with newly installed profile , that should fix it

I did as you suggested and opening links in new tabs works fine now with 1.0RC1.
BTW - I have used TBE for a long time on several Windows OS's and never found it
evil before (until now???)
Thanks, Andrew

Comment 10

[Greg R.]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I can confirm this to be a problem with Slackware 9.1.0. The Firefox .9 version
worked great, but when 1.0 came out this started occuring.  

Comment 11

[Greg R.]

Another note:  When configured to "open in new tab", links opened from
Thunderbird also create an empty tab. If Firefox is not already open, the link
opens correctly in a new browser window.

Comment 12

[Greg R.]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041127 Firefox/0.9.1+

This build seems fixed for this particular bug. Tabs open with their correct
content.

Comment 13

[pdeste]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> 
> I can confirm this to be a problem with Slackware 9.1.0. The Firefox .9 version
> worked great, but when 1.0 came out this started occuring.  
> 
Same for me with Slackware 9.0. The 0.8 works fine.

Comment 14

[Jerry Craker]

This bug is the same on my machine running Linux Fedora Core.

Comment 15

[Jerry Craker]

Deleting the fiefox directory and reinstalling and wiping out the profile fixed
the problem.

Comment 16

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

others, does a new profile fix this problem for you?

Comment 17

[Kevin Brosnan]

Resolving bug WFM. The active people in this bug have reported that the issue is
gone.