331681 - bookmarklets don't work when opened in new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55696

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[luke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

when middle clicking on a bookmarklet in the bookmark toolbar, it opens a new tab and the pop up prompt to enter a query appears, but when you press okay the new tab remains blank. if no pop up query is in the bookmarklet, then an error is returned from the site loaded in the new tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. middle click a bookmarklet
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Actual Results:  
tab opens but nothing loads in the tab

Expected Results:  
tab opens with bookmarklet loading in it

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Using a March 27 trunk build of Firefox, and the "google" bookmarklet on http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/search.html, WFM.  This might be a dup of bug 55696, but before I mark it as such, I'd like to know what bookmarklet you're having this problem with.

Comment 2

[luke]

I just tested it with the Google bookmarklet you said, and that doesn't seem to work for me. I also have Acronym lookup, Wikipedia lookup and Alexa site profile. None of these will work when middle clicking. However, it does look like a dup of bug 55696, though I'm not much of a coder. Thanks for looking into it. :)
Luke.

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

resolving as dupe per comment #1 and #2