409429 - Control clicking on a link (open in new tab) does not open the link; it places the tab in the tab bar.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Steven]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

From my home page, or any other page,
I Control clicked (Open link in new tab) on any link. The link's subject was placed in the Tab Bar, but the link failed to open. I clicked on the subject in the Tab Bar and the page opened.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open any page
2.Control click on a linked page
3.Title of linked page appears in Tab Bar, but linked page does not open
4.Click on Title in Tab Bar and the linked page opens
Actual Results:  
Control clicking on a link does not open the desired page.

Expected Results:  
The link that was Control clicked on should open.

Comment 1

[Adam Alton]

I think you just need to go into Firefox preferences and switch on the option: "When I open a link in a new tab, swtich to it immediately".

Can someone with the necessary admin privileges please mark this as invalid.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1] (away from Feb 12th - Feb 22nd)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think you just need to go into Firefox preferences and switch on the option:
> "When I open a link in a new tab, swtich to it immediately".

Sounds like. Closing bug. Thanks.