300719 - Using my touchpad (tap zones) to generate middle click rarely opens new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 56892

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[millkp-web]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

Configure the synaptic touchpad to enable tapping and tap zones.  Select one of
the zones as middle click (simulates the middle click on a mouse).

Open FF and browes to a web page that has links.  www.msnbc.com.  Hover the
mouse over any link.  Use the tapping zone selected as the middle click.  In
previous versions of FF, 1.0.4 for instance, this would open either a window or
another tab depending on the FF settings.

In version FF 1.0.5, nothing will happen.  Sometimes if you hammer away at the
tap zone, you will get a tab to open.

Synaptic v5.8 (I beleive this is a hardware version)
I tried three SW drivers
7.5.3
7.12.7 H2 (This has a virtual scrolling problem with FF)
8.0.6


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See discription above on touchpad driver setup
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Didn't consistently get a new tab when tap zoning a link

Expected Results:  
Should have opened a new tab with the link selected.

I tried the deer park nightly dated July 13, 2005.  The problem was a little
different.  If I click on the link three time (apprx) I would get the new tab. 
Could be a focus problem.  In both version I could more consistently get a new
tab if the link was boxed/selected (dotted box around link).  Still took two or
three taps.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

bug 56892 ?

Comment 2

[millkp-web]

(In reply to comment #1)
> bug 56892 ?

Yep, that fixed it...  Thanks

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

per comment 2

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56892 ***