294533 - javascript links should work in new windows/tabs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 138198

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Simon Ruggier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Javascript links currently are useless unless opened in the window they exist
in, rather than a new one.  Improving this so that links can be opened in new
tabs or windows would make websites that use javascript to link between pages
much more useable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a site that uses javascript for navigation, say, Hotmail
2. Open a javascript based link in a new tab or window

Actual Results:  
The opened window or tab is useless and blank, because the code runs in the
context of an empty window

Expected Results:  
The resulting tab or window should be identical to what the initial window would
have been if the link was clicked there.  One possible (and simple) solution
would be to clone the existing tab into a new tab/window, and then run the
script there.  As an example of demand for this, see the Hotmail Tabs extension.
 This feature would replace that and any similar workaround extensions.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138198 ***