301102 - Clicking with the mouse wheel button may not open a new tab

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Ryan Propper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Powerfrog/1.0.5 (All your Firefox/1.0.5 are belong to Firesomething)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Powerfrog/1.0.5 (All your Firefox/1.0.5 are belong to Firesomething)

Previously, I could ALWAYS click on a link with my mouse's scroll button (the
"center" or wheel button which lets you scroll up and down after you click it)
to open that link in a new tab. Now, certain web sites (like the example URL
given) do not open new tabs; instead, nothing happens. Try clicking the links at
the bottom of http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/ (i.e. Lookup,
Welcome, etc.) using the scroll/wheel button of a mouse.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
The bug is always reproducible but only for certain web sites, such as
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences. I haven't been able to figure out a
general pattern of sites where it is/is not reproducible.
Actual Results:  
Links do not open in a new tab.

Expected Results:  
Links SHOULD open in a new tab.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0+
ID:2005071622

Works for me. Have you tested this with one of the official builds?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 2

[Ryan Propper]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0+
> ID:2005071622
> 
> Works for me. Have you tested this with one of the official builds?
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

I'm already using Firefox 1.0.5 -- isn't that the latest?

Comment 3

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Does this occur if you start firefox in safe mode:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

(sounds like an extension issue)

Also please use official builds when reporting bugs not third part ones such as
Powerfrog.

Comment 4

[Ryan Propper]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Does this occur if you start firefox in safe mode:
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
> 
> (sounds like an extension issue)

You're right -- thanks for your help. The problem was an issue with one of my
extensions, probably Single Window 0.4. I'll contact the author of this
extension to let him know of the problem.

> Also please use official builds when reporting bugs not third part ones such as
> Powerfrog.

It was an official build...this was just the name Firesomething had given to it. :)

Comment 5

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Reopen to change resolution to invalid as an extension problem.

Single Window mode has been reported as causing problems so it is probably that one.