265969 - Middle clicking a bookmark with 'javascript:location.href' doesn't refer to the current page

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ido Beeri]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

See attached image.
If I click that bookmark with "javascript:location.href" in it, it gives me
wayback result (in this case) of the current address.
But if I middle click it to open in a new tab, it refers to 'about:blank'
instead of to http://update.mozilla.org/ (or whatever the current page it)

In my opinion this is a bug that should be fixed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ido Beeri]

Attachment: Example

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

If you're middle-clicking a bookmark, it is opening that bookmark in a new,
blank tab, with no reference to the previous page.  The new tab has no reason to
be aware of another tab whatsoever, and fixing this edge case would possibly
create privacy/security issues, and has little use outside of bookmarklets such
as this.

This would be something useful as an extension, as you could simply invoke the
openTab method directly.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change