296069 - When CTRL-Click is set to open a link in a new window / tab, it still trigger the onclick events

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151142

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Patrick-Emmanuel Boulanger-Nadeau]

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" AND "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414"

With both mozilla & firefox, using right-click, open in new window, will not
launch the onclick event. This seem the right thing to do since the button
wasn't pressed. All the other browsers tested behave like this and we used this
construct a lot.

But, using the quick key CTRL-Click to do the same action will have the onclick
event fired. This completely destroy what our site do. To show that case, I've
included a small test case at http://omega.darkthrone.com/mozbug.htm with a
simple alert message when you click on the button. It should not be shown when
using right-click -> new tab/window (and it's not), neither should it with
ctrl-click, but it will be. :(

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-Click -> open in a new window
2. CTRL-Click on the link
3. Notice the alert being displayed


Actual Results:  
the alert was displayed, even if it should not

Expected Results:  
not throw the onclick event

Many users reported that problem, all using a version of firefox / mozilla. So
it seems to be a long running bug. This also prevent mixed RPC sites from
working correctly on firefox / mozilla ie gmail is a full RPC site. A mixed one
will have normal link so the user can still open more windows from anywhere,
will support refresh, and stuff like this :)

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of/related to bug 151142?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151142 ***