309513 - Middle-Click or Crtl-Left-Click does not open new tab for certain types of links, but does for others.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Daniel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Middle-clicking or crtl-left-clicking to open a link in a new tab used to work
for me always until I downloaded Firefox 1.0.6.  Starting with that version (and
continuing in my new version, 1.0.7) certain links will not open in a new
window.  In fact nothing will happen at all.  
It seems to depend on how the link is formatted.  It seems that if there is any
formatting (like "<i>...</i>") in between the <a href""> and </a>, then this
problem occurs.  If the formatting is prior to the <a href>, then it seems to
work okay.
This may be a little unclear, but is easy to see when you go to this page to see
what is happening:
http://dcampbell.mailbolt.com/firefox_test.htm
Middle-click or ctrl-left-click the links to see if you get the same result as me.
By the way, in my about:config I have the following for "middleclick" features
(in case you are interested):
middlemouse.contentLoadUrl = false
middlemouse.openNewWindow = true
middlemouse.paste = false

If you have any other questions about specifics, don't hesitate to email me :).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go here:
http://dcampbell.mailbolt.com/firefox_test.htm
2.Middle-click or ctrl-left-click the links to see if you get the same result as me.

Actual Results:  
The links that say "this link works" mean that I am able to middle click the
link open in a new window.
The link that says "this link does not" means that middle clicking on it did not
do anything (neither did ctrl-left-click).  I had to right click, then select
"Open Link In New Tab".

Expected Results:  
It should open the link in a new tab.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050920
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005092017

This is being caused by an extension misbehaving. -> WFM