455158 - Tabs opened with middle click aren't assigned to the opening tab

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[M8R-5190wl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

When closing a tab opened with a middle click, the owner tab doesn't get the focus. It works as expected when the tab was opened with a left click (target="_blank").

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
[ *A* ] [  B  ]
1. Middle click on a link

[ *A* ] [  B  ] [  C  ]
2. Focus new tab C

[  A  ] [  B  ] [ *C* ]
3. Close tab C
Actual Results:  
Tab B gets focused.

Expected Results:  
Tab A should be focused as it is the "owner" of tab C.

browser.tabs.selectOwnerOnClose;true

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

This works fine for me if the option "When I open a new tab, switch to it immediately" is checked.

Comment 2

[aravindm]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3pre) Gecko/20100318 Namoroka/3.6.3pre
Reporter, Please update does the above methods in comment 1 solved your problem ?