543258 - When Toolbars are hidden via OS X toolbar control (top right button) links don't open in new tabs but windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 479742

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Arlo O'Keeffe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; de; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; de; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

When Toolbars are hidden via OS X toolbar control (top right button) links don't open in new tabs but windows.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Firefox to open in new tab instead of window
2. Hide Toolbars with the Toolbar Control Button
3. Go to page with links that want to open in a new window
4. Click on them
Actual Results:  
The link opens up in a new window!

Expected Results:  
The link should open in a new tab!

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Can you please give an example of such an url? thanks.

Comment 2

[Arlo O'Keeffe]

If you go to the URL you will see "If you like this, then you might also like:" these links are supposed to open in a new window (<a target="_blank"…).

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Thanks. After searching existing bugs I have found bug 479742 which already handles this issue.