275844 - Middle click on link in email does not open new browser tab

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 267378

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Ruth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

I have my preferences set to open a new tab on middle click. In all prior
versions I have used, a middle click on a standard link in an email message
opened a new tab. Since updating to 1.7.5, when I middle click a link, nothing
happens-no new tab, no new window, no error message. Right click does offer the
option of opening in a new tab and is functional.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set user preferences to open new tab on middle click.
2. Open email containing standard url's
3. Click on link.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Link referral should have opened in new tab.

Comment 1

[HJ]

I can confirm this bug, and noticed the following JavaScript error on my
JavaScript console:

Error: XPCNativeWrapper is not defined
Source File: chrome://communicator/content/contentAreaClick.js
Line: 153

but this will only be displayed when you've set
"javascript.options.showInConsole" to 'true'

I guess that the following line is missing from one of the overlays:

  <script type="application/x-javascript"
src="chrome://communicator/content/XPCNativeWrapper.js"/>

and that's not /global/ in Mozilla 1.7.5

Comment 2

[jon rekai]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 267378 ***