297249 - Command-clicking on a link in Gmail both opens a new tab AND opens a new window.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 262376

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[lars]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Command-clicking on any link in Gmail will open a new tab with the URL AND open
a new window with the URL.  Command-clicking on links elsewhere appears to work
just fine.

I have not seen this problem on the Linux version of Firefox.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050609
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060915

WFM

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

My guess is that Gmail is checking for Ctrl but not for Cmd.  If that's correct,
this can be fixed by Google adding a check for Cmd, or Firefox developers fixing
bug 151142.

Comment 3

[lars]

I thought the original bug report was pretty clear, but the WFM comment makes me
wonder.  This only happens in the *Mac* version of Firefox.

I'm also not sure how this is Google's problem -- if I command-click on a link,
I'm telling Firefox to open the link in a new tab, and it should ignore any
hints from the server side about creating a new window.

It's pretty easy to reproduce.  I haven't had the chance to try it with 1.0.5
yet, but it happens all the time with 1.0.4.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 151142 exists on both Windows and Mac, so the fact that this happens on Mac
with Cmd but not on Windows with Ctrl makes me think that Google is avoiding
this problem on Windows by explicitly testing whether the Ctrl key is pressed. 
I agree that this should be fixed in Firefox in bug 151142, but I'm also
pointing out that Google could fix it in Gmail and is probably willing to fix it.

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 262376 ***