304924 - window.open('', target) does not reuse tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121377

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[:Mook]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050817
Firefox/1.0+
checkout start: Wed Aug 17 01:14:01 2005 UTC+0800
checkout finish: Wed Aug 17 01:18:33 2005 UTC+0800

Steps to reproduce:
1. Set Firefox to open all windows in new tabs (browser.link.open_newwindow = 3)
2. Open attached testcase.
3. Click on the link.
4. Return to the first tab if it opened in the foreground.
5. Click the link again

Expected Results:
Only one new tab is created, subsequent clicks go to the previous tab.

Actual Results:
Each click on the link opens a new tab

Other comments:
Clicking the link from within the second tab (i.e. the tab has a name) reuses
the existing tab and does not spawn new tabs.  If window.open() is set to open
new windows (the pref set to non-3) the new window is always reused.

Someone else on IRC on Linux also reproduced with "a fairly recent nightly".

Sorry, had trouble finding a dupe (but assumed this must be one)

Comment 1

[:Mook]

Attachment: testcase (window.open calls)

Comment 2

[shutdown]

duplicate of bug 121377?

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121377 ***