280723 - Possibility for unnavigability when a window hides button/tab bar and new tab created

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 243893

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Varun Mehta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050117 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050117 Firefox/1.0

When a website opens a new window (by javascript) and hides the tab/button bar
and the menu bar, one can open

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open a website which hides the button bar and menu bar
2.  Hit ctrl-T

Actual Results:  
A blank white page opens and the tab switcher and menu bar are not visible

Expected Results:  
A blank page can show up, but the tab bar should be visible!  Novice users would
not realize that you would have to hit ctrl-w to close the tab.

Comment 1

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

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