272521 - ctrl+click opens duplicate tabs/windows for links with onclick="window.open..."

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 266583

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Matthew Woehlke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041115 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041115 Firefox/1.0

Ctrl-click on certian hyperlinks using onclick="window.open(...);return false;"
causes duplicate tabs to be opened, or a tab and a new window to be opened.

There's about a bazillion similar-looking bugs in the database dating back to
2000. Does it really take four years and three major versions to fix this?

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open test case file (attached below)
2. Ctrl-click the image
Actual Results:  
One new tab is correctly opened. With tabbed browsing options set to open 'new
window' links in new tabs, a second new tab is also created and becomes active.
Otherwise a new window is created in addition to the tab in the current window.

Expected Results:  
Single new tab opened and not activated; current tab remains active.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Are you using TBE or a similar extension? If so, try it without that extension
installed.

Comment 2

[Matthew Woehlke]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Ah, nevermind the previous comment. I can't see how this can possibly be
resolved, since Ctrl+Clicking the link makes a new tab, but the javascript
onClick handler is also called, which creates a popup (opened in a new tab).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 266583 ***