626173 - Control-clicking link opens in same tab if control is released before new tab loads

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[spamphage]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13

When quickly opening multiple new tabs by control-clicking links, releasing the control key after you have clicked the links but before the new tabs have spawned will cause the links to open in the same tab instead of a new tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a site with many interesting links
2. Hold control
3. Click on many links in quick succession
4. Relinquish control immediately
Actual Results:  
The first few links may correctly open in new tabs, but no new tabs are spawned for the remaining links, instead, Firefox behaves as if I had regularly clicked on these remaining links, i.e. it tries to load them in the same tab and only ends up displaying the last of them.

Expected Results:  
All links that were control-clicked should open in new tabs.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away July 24th - August 16th)]

Does that also happen for you with the latest beta version of Firefox 4?

http://www.mozilla.com/de/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 2

[spamphage]

No.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away July 24th - August 16th)]

Thanks for your feedback. Given that we do not know which patch exactly fixed this issue, we resolve bugs as WFM.