480232 - Links in Protected Tabs should open in new Tab

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Josh Posh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

If you click on links on a site that is in a protected tab the links should open in a new tab even if they don't normally. This way you can't go away from the site you wanted to keep by protecting the tab by accident when you click on a link.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open site A
2. Protect the tab
3. Site A has a link to site B
4. Click the link to site B

Actual Results:  
Site A is gone = the protecting of the tab was useless

Expected Results:  
Site B opens in a new tab, site A is still there.

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

The ability to mark tabs as "protected" or "locked" is not a Firefox feature. That's part of the Tab Mix Plus extension, if I remember correctly. Please report problems with non-Mozilla add-ons to their developers.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

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