276411 - Browser window becomes orphaned if new tab is opened in it (with certain window styles).

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 243893

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nate Bingel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041223
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041223

Browser window becomes orphaned if new tab is opened in it (with certain window
styles). If you have your tabbed browsing set to "a new tab in the most recent
window" and the most recent window has the styles
'height=600,width=800,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes' the browser viewing area
becomes unusable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a html page with this html: <a href="javascript:void(0)"
onClick="window.open('http://www.auto-trol.com','_new','height=600,width=800,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes')">link</a>

2.Set your tabbed browsing preferences to "a new tab in the most recent window"
3.Open an external link, or hit ctrl-t in that window.

Actual Results:  
The previous tab is orphaned.

Expected Results:  
Showed the tabs, or denied the tab addition.

Comment 1

[Travis Cobbs]

Note that this also happens if you have Firefox set to your default browser in
the operating system, and you open an html page from your OS.  (There may be a
setting that causes freshly opened pages from the operating system to go to a
new tab; I'm not sure.)

Also note that the original tab isn't exactly orphaned.  In Windows at least,
you can use Ctrl+Tab to get back to it.

Comment 2

[Travis Cobbs]

I think I mis-read the original description, and "external link" meant exactly
what I said about opening something from the OS.  Sorry about that.  My comment
about Ctrl+tab still stands, though.

Comment 3

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243893 ***