Closed Bug 64775 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Clicking on link that opens in new window (fx "target=_blank") writes to status bar of current window

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED FIXED
mozilla0.9.1

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: mscott)

References

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Details

If you click on a link that has "target=_blank" mozilla seems to do some network
stuff before opening the window.

If you click on the link mozilla will show "connecting to", "sending request
to", etc.. in the status bar of the current window before opening the new window.

Try going to:
http://gemal.dk/help/devtools.html
and click on the www.allaire.com link and watch the status bar
All kinds of "connecting to", "sending request to"... before the new window is
opened.

Build 20010109
Target Milestone: --- → Future
I also see this on BeOS, build 2001021912.
Additionally, the link is sometimes *indeed* opened in the wrong (current) window.
I experienced this behaviour when having 2 windows open, where one was
connecting to a server and so was busy.
Then, from the first, 'ready' window, I selected "Mozilla->Go to Bugzilla" from
the statusbar, and the link was opened in the second, busy window!
So Mozilla seems sometimes to "re-use" windows that are not finished when
opening links...
this happens for me with 2001031204 on WinNT4
still seeing this as of 2001031821 (linux .tar.gz nightly build).
for me the behaviour is slightly different: after clicking on link, new window
opens, but its throbber and statusbar do not change. in old window, throbber and
statusbar reflect everything that should be in new window :)
Assignee: neeti → mscott
Target Milestone: Future → mozilla0.9
I saw this last night and it definitely sucks. We need to get this back in
0.9/0.91 time frame. The real problem is the progresslistener is not being
connected correctly to the new window and AFAIK this happens in the URILoader.
To mscott
moving to 0.9.1
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9 → mozilla0.9.1
Depends on: 65777
Keywords: nsCatFood+
No longer depends on: 65777
Blocks: 65777
moving to 0.9.2
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.1 → mozilla0.9.2
This should be fixed.  The patch attached to bug #65777 causes window targeting
to occur before the URI is loaded.  Therefore all status/progress messages will
go to the target window, not the originating window.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.2 → mozilla0.9.1
build 20010515 works just fine with fine. status text is in the correct window.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
I noticed a problem with mozilla when i clicked on a link(where target= _blank
is used) to launch a window. As soon as i clicked on the link a new window is
spawned but the URL is not loaded immediately.Hence, if i minimize the opened
blank window and open any other page the intended page (which was supposed to
be opened on the blank window)  opens on the most recently closed page.If i
keep the cursor on the Blank window which was spawned then the intended page
opens on the blank window as desired.
Just forgot to mention ,the above behavior is noticed on a Solaris machine.
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