626615 - nothing seems to happen when a link is middle-clicked in full-screen mode

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Amir Aharoni]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b9) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b9

When i middle-click a tab in regular (not full-screen) mode, a new tab immediately appears in the tab bar. In full-screen nothing seems to happen and i'm left puzzled whether my middle-click actually caused something. The only thing that sometimes happens is that a dotted frame appears at the link, but it is site-dependent and inconsistent.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox at a website with hyperlinks.
2. Go full-screen (F11).
3. Middle-click a link.
Actual Results:  
A new tab is being loaded, but this can be seen only by hovering to the top of the screen.

Expected Results:  
Something should indicate that the request to open a new tab was received and being acted upon without having to hover to the top of the screen.

This problem is similar to Bug 573385.

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Reporter -> Are you still experiencing this issue with the latest version of Firefox 5? Does the issue occur with the latest nightly? http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 2

[Amir Aharoni]

The behavior is the same in the latest versions of Aurora and Nightly.