Open Bug 521814 Opened 15 years ago Updated 2 years ago

window.opener not set by shift-click

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: ross, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

window.opener variable is not set when a new window is created by shift-click.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.use keyboard shift click on hyperlink (within same website)
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
window.opener = null

Expected Results:  
window.opener = object
I also get the bug when opening a window with widndow.open function. I think it may be related to this bug...
Severity: normal → S3
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