359389 - Shift-middle-clicking a link doesn't set 'parent tab'

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[tommyjb]

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

1. Ensure that there is a tab to the right of the tab you have open **right now**.
2. Ensure that "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately" (in Tools-->Options-->Tabs) is disabled.
3. Middle-click a link on the current page (such as 'View Bug Activity', above) while holding Shift, thereby opening the link in a new tab -- with focus.
4. Close the current tab (the current tab is the tab opened in step 3).

Actual:

    The tab-to-the-right is focussed.

Expected:

    The tab containing this Bugzilla page is focussed.

The basis for this expected result is that Shift+middle-clicking a link is an intermediate step.  See <http://wiki.mozilla.org/Link_Targeting#Moving_Focus_after_Closing_Tabs>.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[tommyjb]

Just to add:  In step 1, make sure that the tab-to-the-right is *not* blank.

Comment 2

[tommyjb]

This is strange -- for me, the expected result occasionally *does* happen, but usually not.

Comment 3

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

Does this still happen? Have you tried it in safe-mode?

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3