434420 - Ctrl+click opens in current tab AND new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151142

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Dominic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0

When I Ctrl+click a link at http://spanish.about.com/library/beginning/bl-beg-verbs-conjugation-preterite.htm "most popular" field, a new tab opens (as expected), but my current tab also changes (which should not happen).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://spanish.about.com/library/beginning/bl-beg-verbs-conjugation-preterite.htm
2. Ctrl+click a link in the most popular section on the right.
Actual Results:  
My current tab changes, and a new tab opens.

Expected Results:  
A new tab should open, and the current tab should stay the same.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC1 - Default theme.
Windows XP SP1.

Build platform
target
i686-pc-mingw32

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
cl 	14.00.50727.762 	-GL -wd4624 -wd4952 -TC -nologo -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
cl 	14.00.50727.762 	-GR- -GL -wd4624 -wd4952 -TP -nologo -Zc:wchar_t- -W3 -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)

Configure arguments
--enable-application=browser --enable-update-channel=release --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-update-packaging --enable-official-branding --enable-jemalloc --with-crashreporter-enable-percent=25

Comment 1

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

confirmed on xpsp2, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0