277700 - Drop down address textfield menu doesn't allow new tabs to open from it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 295498

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[stalvenson22]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When clicking on an address in the address field drop down menu with the middle
mouse button, the browser will simply open the requested page in the currently
open window or tab. This issue was introduced in Firefox 1.0 and did not affect
1.0PR, 0.9, or those versions before.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Firefox 1.0 and click on the down arrow of the address field
2.Click the middle mouse button on one of the listed visited pages
3.Instead of opening the requested URL in a new tab, it will just open in the
currently opened window or tab

Actual Results:  
The webpage opened in the current window.

Expected Results:  
It should have opened the webpage in a new tab.

Theme: Firefox Default 2.0
Extensions: None installed deal with tabbed browsing

Comment 1

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

Are you sure this was present in previous versions? I don't think that the
necessary code has ever existed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164008 ***

Comment 2

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 295498 ***