911514 - Right-click menu "Open link in new..." options do not function.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[delita_san]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130814063812

Steps to reproduce:

I was trying to open a link in a new tab, a process I perform very frequently. I right-clicked on the link I wanted to open and selected "Open link in new tab." Eventually I tried other options, like private window and new window, with the same results.


Actual results:

Nothing. Absolutely nothing happened at all. The right-click window closed as though the command were accepted, and then nothing happened after that. No windows, tabs or anything else opened.


Expected results:

A new tab or window should have opened. The option has been in Firefox for years, and explicitly states that what it should do, as opposed to waste time. I had only just recently updated -- it was fine before the update. Even did an uninstall and reinstall just to make sure, but still nothing.

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

(In reply to delita_san from comment #0)
> Even did an uninstall and reinstall just to make sure, but still nothing.
Can you reproduce this problem in Firefox's own safe mode? Get there from the menu: Help -> Restart with Add-ons Disabled

Comment 2

[delita_san]

(In reply to Mardeg from comment #1)
> (In reply to delita_san from comment #0)
> > Even did an uninstall and reinstall just to make sure, but still nothing.
> Can you reproduce this problem in Firefox's own safe mode? Get there from
> the menu: Help -> Restart with Add-ons Disabled

Safe Mode seems to restore function. Must be one of my add-ons. Thank you for the tip, I didn't know Firefox had a safe mode. I will go through them one by one and find the culprit, unless there is a fast way to check them.

Thanks again, cheers!

Comment 3

[delita_san]

(In reply to delita_san from comment #2)
> (In reply to Mardeg from comment #1)
> > (In reply to delita_san from comment #0)
> > > Even did an uninstall and reinstall just to make sure, but still nothing.
> > Can you reproduce this problem in Firefox's own safe mode? Get there from
> > the menu: Help -> Restart with Add-ons Disabled
> 
> Safe Mode seems to restore function. Must be one of my add-ons. Thank you
> for the tip, I didn't know Firefox had a safe mode. I will go through them
> one by one and find the culprit, unless there is a fast way to check them.
> 
> Thanks again, cheers!

After checking, looks like Firebug was causing the error. Realized after I had submitted the message that such information might be handy lol.

Comment 4

[Mardeg]

Resolving this as WORKSFORME on the Firefox product given comment 3.
Firebug issues are listed at http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/list and you can ask about it in their IRC channel at irc://irc.mozilla.org/firebug