357441 - links opened in new window instead of tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 324322

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[marco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

I have checked the option to make new pages open in a new tab instead of a window. however on www.ggmania.com, if I click on a screenshot the link is always opened in a new window instead of a new tab (note that it works correctly in firefox 1.5.0.7!). Since in the release notes of Firefox 2.0 I read: "Improved tabbed browsing: By default, Firefox will open links in new tabs instead of new windows" I think that this is a major bug, and should be fixed before final release. Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=22541
2. left click on a screenshot
3. a new window is opened instead of a new tab

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

That page is using window.open() to open the screenshots (note that it's a smaller-sized window). That preference only diverts windows with target="_blank" into new tabs. You would will need to set browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 0 for that window to open in a new tab.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 324322 ***