491804 - Ctrl-click on link fails to open in new tab

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[David Booth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10

Control+click on a link opens in the existing tab (instead of a new tab) if the control key is pressed (and held) *prior* to clicking the link.  This often occurs when moving the mouse to a link  in order to ctrl-click on it to open it in a new window.  If the control key is depressed too soon (before the mouse pointer is over the link) then the link opens in the same window instead of opening in a new window.  This often happens when trying to open several links in new tabs, because the user is moving the mouse from one link to the other while clicking.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press and hold the Control key while the mouse pointer is NOT over a link.
2. Move the mouse pointer over a link (while the control key is still held down).
3. Click the left mouse button (while the control key is still held down).
Actual Results:  
The link opens in the existing tab.

Expected Results:  
The link should have opened in a new tab.

This seems like it might be related to bugs:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436596
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489177

Comment 1

[David Booth]

This seems to have something to do with the way events are processed.  It is also reproducible in a slightly different way:
1. Press and hold the Control key while the mouse pointer *is* over a link.
2. Move the mouse pointer away from the link (while the control key is still depressed)
3. Move the mouse pointer back over the link (while the control key is still depressed)
4. Click the left mouse button (while the control key is still depressed).

Again, the link is opened in the existing tab instead of opening in a new tab.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11pre) Gecko/2009043005 GranParadiso/3.0.11pre

This works fine for me. Can you retest in safe-mode? http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

I believe this is related or even a dupe of bug 145313.

Would be great to get some more information:
* How high is your cpu load when this bug happens?
* Do you release the ctrl key right away after clicking the link?

Marking as new for now.

Comment 6

[schmusi-bitte]

I have the same problem - and it is reproducible in https://-pages (eg. https://www.gmx.net/ )

It is not possible to open a link on this side with ctrl-klick in a new tab.

Can someone help me???

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I have the same problem - and it is reproducible in https://-pages (eg.
> https://www.gmx.net/ )
> 
> It is not possible to open a link on this side with ctrl-klick in a new tab.

You are looking for bug 151142 but not this one. You can do a right click and open in a new tab instead.

Comment 8

[Carlo 'Carcarlo' Carmagnini]

WFM. Can't reproduce on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3