272436 - Opening secure pages in new tab from secure page in same site shows redundant security warning

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270890

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Robert Rothenberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

When on a securre site, opening a link in that site in a new tab (or window)
shows a security warning.  This is redundant, and there should be an option to
disable it.

It seems redundant to get a security warning about opening a page on a site that
one is already at.  One does not get the security warning by simply clicking on
a link and opening it in the same tab or window, so why should one get a
security warning for having the page open in a new tab or window.

Note that the same occurs for new windows (or tabs?) opened from JavaScript.
There should probably be a separate option for warning about opening windows
from scripting languages.

See also bug 239946

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a secure site (https://whatever....)
2. On a link to a page in that same site, open in a new tab or window
   (using right-click)

Actual Results:  
A warning comes up that one is entering a secure site.

Expected Results:  
It would be awfully nice to disable it, or it should be removed altogether
(well, maybe with an open to enable it).

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz] (OOO: back Aug 26)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270890 ***