271837 - Shift+Left Click and Ctrl+Left Click often fail to open link in a new window/new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 265626

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[4w29q8c02]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Pressing the keyboard shortcut Shift+Left Click only opens a link in a new
window about half the time.  Pressing Ctrl+Left Click only opens a link in a new
tab about half the time.  Pressing Shift+Enter or Ctrl+Enter does not open a new
link at all.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit a page with multiple links, such as http://www.techweb.com/headlines_week/
2.Try to open a link in a new window or tab, using a keyboard shortcut
3.Right-click+W and Right click+T always work, but Shift+Left click and
Ctrl+Left Click are erratic.

Actual Results:  
None of the links would open correctly with keyboard shortcuts at the URL I listed.

Expected Results:  
The links should have opened in a new window or new tab, using the keyboard
shortcuts.

I use the Zip (non-installer) version of Firefox without any extensions or themes.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041119
Firefox/0.9.1+

WFM with the article links on http://www.techweb.com/headlines_week/.

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

I believe this is "Ctrl-click on links opens in same tab when PC is busy"

If not, reopen.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 265626 ***