320961 - A new window still opens when "force links to open in new tab" is set.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 314721

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[TheBorgInvasion]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

I have Firefox set to force open a new tab for pages that prefer new windows. So far, I have seen this to not work on Vonage www.vonage.com pages.

I have found this to happen when I click their "help"
javascript:openWin('https://www.vonage.com/help/index.php?topic=care&direct=y', 'helpWin', 'scrollbars,toolbar,menus,resizable');

Their "contact"
javascript:openWin('https://www.vonage.com/help/index.php?topic=contact&direct=y', 'helpWin', 'scrollbars,toolbar,menus,resizable');

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I click link. It opens new window.
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Expected Results:  
Opened a new tab in current window.

Comment 1

[TheBorgInvasion]

Also found this to happen when on www.startrek.com, clicking the Comic link to open  javascript:newWindow=window.open('/startrek/page/redirect/external?id=13627', 'mediapopup', 'width=800,height=360'); newWindow.focus()
Will also open a new window.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

In about:config (http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config) can you change the value of browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 0 and retry?

Comment 3

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

The site specifies "features" on the window, so it is not diverted. You can change the pref that Ria mentions to obtain the old behavior.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 314721 ***

Comment 4

[Sean]

I notice this problem in a browser that uses iframes.  When I roll over the desired link, it lights up and does not display the link in the lower right hand window/toolbar thing that is gray.  I am still able to copy the link if I right click it and move it to the clipboard. An example of the code is 

<a href="#"   onmouseover="window.status='CMHS'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;" onclick="top.doWindowOpen('http://www.samhsa.gov/cmhs/cmhs.htm', 'new_frame', 'width=730,height=414,menubar=1,toolbar=1,scrollbars=1,status=1,location=1,resizable=1', 0); return false;" >.

This problem with mozilla lies in it's ability to handle the javascript of the page which involves "onclick".  For somereason I can right click that same link and open it in a new tab.  If someone can change the way FireFox handles links to use the same process I use to open link, the problem would be solve.  I wish I knew how to solve it.