305860 - geocities.com - middle click opens link in current window in addition to new tab

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Segal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

When on any geocities page, if I click on a link with my middle mouse button to
open it in a new tab, the page opens in my current tab as well as a new one. 
This does not occur when I right click and select open in new tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a geocities page like http://www.geocities.com/j4_student/schematics.htm.
2. Middle click a link.
Actual Results:  
Page opens in current tab and new tab.

Expected Results:  
Page should open in new tab only.

Comment 1

[wxdan_ccc]

Yes, I just noticed this in a Geocities site:

  http://www.geocities.com/satanicreds/index.html

That's the main page.  Clicking on any item on a list of links such as

  http://www.geocities.com/satanicreds/9-sat-tan.html

opens that page in a new tab and then opens it in the current page.

The code that is upsetting doesn't look exactly normal to my sub-educated eye:

  <a href="9-sat-tan.html"><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=5 COLOR="#00ff00"><strong>
  <P ALIGN="CENTER">THE NINE POSTULATES OF SATAN</P></strong></font></a>

If I were writing the HTML I would've set my paragraph boundaries <P>  and </P>
around the whole item rather than sticking them after the <a href=> clause.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051003
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005100313

I can reproduce this, but I'm not really sure why it happens. I think it has
something to do with the frames, and them specifying the link to open in
target="window". <a href="http://www.geocities.com/j4_student/bossge7.pdf"
target="window">Boss GE-7 Equilizer</a>

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

GeoCities include a script that captures clicks and causes the extra page load.

http://us.geocities.com/js_source/geovck07.js

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Would also be "fixed" by bug 151142.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.