268837 - Link with _blank opens on full screen and makes the browser uncontrollable.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Petr Kadlec]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

After clicking on a link with target=_blank makes the target page display in the
full window, without any menu bar, toolbar, location bar, etc. Furthermore,
neither keyboard shortcuts nor mouse gestures work, so that the only choice
(apart from browsing from the displayed page) is closing the browser window by
clicking on the X button.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Just click any _blank link.
Actual Results:  
The "tab" expanded to fill the whole browser window, removing menu, toolbar
etc., keyboard shortcuts did not work.

Expected Results:  
Open in a new tab.

I use "Tabbrowser Extensions" and "Tabbrowser Preferences" plugins and have
changed many preferences there. So maybe the bug is in fact some configuration
problem or a bug in those plugins. (But is there any reason why such a behaviour
would be correct, anyway?)

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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