847895 - Middle click on some SVG files results in new tab 'data:image/png;base64,...'

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130227155321

Steps to reproduce:

# Goto https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/4/45/20130304114853!Bandera_Front_Alliberament_Cham.svg
# Middle click on the SVG file (optionally hold down and try to autoscroll)


Actual results:

A new tab was opened

data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KG...


Expected results:

Either nothing (if general.autoScroll;false)
or autoscroll (if general.autoScroll;true)

Comment 1

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Tested on  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
and  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

Confirmed with 2013-03-04-03-09-33-mozilla-central-firefox-22.0a1.ru.linux-x86_64.  Autoscroll works, too.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Reproducible with 2005-08-01-05-trunk-firefox-1.0+.en-US.linux-i686, so it probably was there from the beginning.

Comment 4

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

How the UI works is not CORE->SVG

Comment 5

[Alice0775 White]

Regression window(m-c)
Good:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110630 Firefox/7.0a1 ID:20110630030749
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/beceddeee3f4
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110701 Firefox/7.0a1 ID:20110701030757
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/549e3276ed25
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110702 Firefox/7.0a1 ID:20110702030813
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=beceddeee3f4&tochange=549e3276ed25

Triggered by:
bf475efe290d	Marco Bonardo — Bug 667195 - Ctrl + Click on SVG/MathML links does not open pages in a new tab. r=gavin

Comment 6

[Alice0775 White]

So, I think this behavior is by design.

Comment 7

[Alice0775 White]

However,This is valid bug in case of autoscroll enabled.

Comment 8

[[e-mail]]

It seems this only happens when the SVG has embedded PNG files.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/4/45/20060827124647!Bandera_Front_Alliberament_Cham.svg is plain SVG and the behavior is not reproducible.

Comment 9

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Attachment: Simplified Test SVG

I created a simple TestCase.SVG: Empty SVG with small PNG file (pink) embedded. Only a middle mouse click on the PNG results in the new tab.

Comment 10

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

That <image> has an xlink:href. We treat those as links. I don't know what is really expected here.

Comment 11

[Alice0775 White]

I think
Clicking the element should open the link.
However, In case clicking the element during auto scrolling, the link should be ignored.

Comment 12

[[e-mail]]

(In reply to Alice0775 White from comment #11)
> Clicking the element should open the link.
Not sure either what is best, but it seems Google Chrome does not open the link.
And also left click does not open the link in FF.

Comment 13

[Alice0775 White]

Solly I mean Ctrl+click and/or Middle click.

Comment 14

[Alice0775 White]

Oops
s/Solly/Sorry/

Comment 15

[Jason Keirstead]

This issue still exists in Firefox ESR 17.06

In addition, CTRL+Click on any image embedded into an SVG, opens it in a new tab.

We're trying to figure out a way to work around this for now - but this is not expected behaviour. xlink:href is how an image is embedded into an SVG; it does not have the same meaning as an a:href and should not open in a new tab with either middle click or CTRL+click

Comment 16

[[e-mail]]

Is this still an issue?