443547 - Open Link in New Tab no longer works with Hotmail after recent Firefox update

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Neil McLachlan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15

In my Hotmail Inbox, using Firefox, Ctrl+click opens link in same tab, not new tab. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in to Hotmail
2. Go to Inbox
3. Ctrl+click on message (in either From or Subject column)
Actual Results:  
Open message replaces Inbox in original tab.

New tab does open & becomes active but is blank, has "(Untitled)" on tab & "javascript:;" in address bar, where URL should be. 

Expected Results:  
Retained Inbox in original tab. Opened & activated new tab with message contents.

Ctrl+click worked as expected until most recent Firefox update (about 1.5 days ago). 

Context (right click) menu now has no new tab/new window options for Inbox messages but I don't normally use the context menu, so this might not be new behavior.

I've not given URL -- No point directing you to *my* Hotmail account.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, and have not been changed for 800 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile,
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you
still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the
resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Matthew Gaudet (he/him) [:mgaudet]]

Attachment: Add InstanceOf inline cache to IonMonkey

Install an inline cache for some of the instanceof calls in IonMonkey that
would otherwise hit the interpreter.