325571 - tabs with target open multiple tabs when multiple times clicked

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121377

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Simon Wunderlin]

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

When "Force Links that open new window to open in:" > "[o] a new tab" is set and a link is click with (eg.) target="help" a new tab opens as expected. when the link is clicked again a new tab opens again. this is different tothe windw behavour where the link would have been loaded in the already opened window with target="help".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
set "Force Links that open new window to open in:" > "[o] a new tab" in the tab options menu

1. left click link with target="..."
2. tab opens 
3. repeat
4. new tab opens



Actual Results:  
a second link with an already "existing" tab for that target will open a new tab


Expected Results:  
a second link with an already "existing" tab for that target should load in the existing tab

MAybe this is my misunderstanding, but from a html point of view a tab should get treated the same when it gets to targets (AFAIK this si the case if used with javascript).

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This is a dupe, and will be fixed for Fx2 (and is the reason we didn't make that setting the default in Fx1.5)

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

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