269711 - no option for opening 'target="_blank"' links in new tab; 'target="_blank"' links get opened in a new window;

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 227241

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Links that have a property of 'target="_blank"' are opened in a brand new window
although I set up everything tab-related to say "open in new tab".

Example link (HTML):
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/" target="_blank">Mozilla</a>

Clicking on the link generated by the above code opens the Mozilla site in a new
window.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to or create a simple HTML page containing a link like the following:
<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/" target="_blank">Mozilla</a>
2. Click the link

Actual Results:  
A new window pops open instead of a tab.

Expected Results:  
The page should have opened in a new tab, not a new window.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Did you check "Force links that open in new windows to open in new tabs
instead"?  Note that that option is experimental and hidden by default (see bug
266759); you can make it appear by following instructions on
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.0.html.  If that helps, please
mark this bug as a duplicate of bug 227241.

Comment 2

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227241 ***

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