359454 - Middle-click on javascript link opens new empty tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55696

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[uli.2001]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060911 SUSE/1.5.0.7-1.5 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060911 SUSE/1.5.0.7-1.5 Firefox/1.5.0.7

Clicking on a url with the middle mouse button usually opens the target in a new tab. However, this does not work with links pointing to some javascript code.

The link address is something like javascript:FensterP3235()

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.digitalkamera.de/Belichtung/ 
2. using the middle mouse button, click on one of the links pointing to something like "javascript:FensterP3235()" in the right-most column of the big table

Actual Results:  
a new empty tab with "javascript:FensterP3235()" in the address bar is opened

Expected Results:  
Since the javascript code mainly opens a new window in this case, the window should be opened and sent to the new tab.
Or middle-clicking should just do the same as left-clicking.
Or middle-clicking should do nothing at all.


Firefox seems to know that it cannot open a javascript link in a new tab: right-clicking on the link does not offer "open link in new tab" in the context menu.

Comment 1

[Anders Conbere]

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