331056 - Repeated Tabs for the Same Target

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 326009

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[David E. Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0

On the cited Web page, terms mentioned are defined on a separate Glossary Web page.  The first occurance of a defined term in the cited page is a link to the location of the definition of that term on the Glossary page.  

On the first instance of selecting a link to a term in the Glossary, a browser nominally opens a new window and positions the page to the definition of the selected term.  On any subsequent instance of selecting a link to a different term in the Glossary, the existing Glossary page is then repositioned to that new term.  This is done by having the attribute target="glossary" in the anchors for all the links.  

I have my preference for "Link open behavior" set to "A new tab in the current window".  If I have already selected a link to a Glossary definition (which opens the Glossary page in a new tab in the current window), selecting a link to another definition opens the Glossary page in yet another new tab in the current window.  

Effectively, the browser fails to recognize that the targeted page already exists.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set the preference for "Link open behavior" to "A new tab in the current window".  
2.  Go to the cited page.  
3.  In the first paragraph (just under the copyright notice), select the link for "glossary".  
4.  In the third paragraph under the list of sections, select the link for "ISPs".  
5.  In that same paragraph, select the link for "POP".  

Actual Results:  
Three tabs will open, all for the page at <http://www.rossde.com/internet/intr_gloss.html>.  The first tab will have the content positioned at the top of the page.  The second tab will have the content positioned at the definition for "ISP".  The third tab will have the content positioned at the definition for "POP".  

Expected Results:  
At step 3, a tab should open with the content positioned at the top of the page.  

At step 4, no new tab should open.  The content in the existing tab from step 3 should reposition at the definition for "ISP".  

At step 5, no new tab should open.  The content in the existing tab from step 3 should reposition at the definition for "POP".  

The proliferation of tabs in this situation is worse than the launching of a new window, for which the preference for "Link open behavior" set to "A new tab in the current window" was implemented.

Comment 1

[Uriah Narmed]

Dupe of Bug 121377?

Comment 2

[David E. Ross]

This is a duplicate of bug #326009, to which Bug #121377 was marked closed as a duplicate.  

Note that, although bug #326009 is marked as fixed, the fix has not yet reached any official user release.  

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 326009 ***