349058 - Middle click won't open the link in new tab.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55696

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Worcester12345]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060814 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060814 Firefox/1.5.0.6

Middle clicking some of the links on this page, I thought I'd go and read them after the fact. I closed the main page, and was left with a bunch of blank pages. 

This isn't right and should be fixed immediately. If nothing else, it should give an error that this isn't possible or something. Fortunately, I found the page I linked from. Single left clicking, the page opens fine in a new window. Now how do I get it into a tab? I might try the Duplicate Tabs extension and see if it grabs them using the right-click "Merge Windows" function.

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to open a link using middle-click or control-click.
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Actual Results:  
Blank tab opens in background.

Expected Results:  
Content opens in new background tab.

No additional information.

Comment 1

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55696 ***

Comment 2

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55696 ***
> 

Yeah, I also just found that. 

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