272339 - Holding down [Ctrl] does not always open a new tab.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 265626

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Gene Wirchenko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

     Holding down [Ctrl] does not always open a new tab.
     I am running FireFox on a fairly minimal system: 64 MB, 400 MHz. 
Consequently, there is quite a bit of swapping.
     Sometimes, when I try to open a tab with [Ctrl]<click on hyperlink>, the
[Ctrl] press does not register.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a slow system that swaps.
2. Open a page that has a link on it.
3. [Ctrl]<click on hyperlink> while the system is swapping.

Actual Results:  
The [Ctrl] press does not register.


Expected Results:  
Another tab should have been operned.


     I think I know why.  The status of the [Ctrl] key is not looked at soon
enough.  Sometimes, I still have the [Ctrl] key down.  Presumably, it works in
those cases.  Sometimes, I have released the [Ctrl] key.  Presumably, it then
does not work.

     I have duplicated this problem once using this method, and this method is
consistent with what I have observed.  When I hold down [Ctrl], I hold it down
solidly.  No other app gives me grief, so I conclude that my keyboard is not faulty.

     If my surmise is correct, the correction would be to check for the [Ctrl]
press as soon as the click is detected.  Do not wait at all.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

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