User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0 Build ID: 20150416030209 Steps to reproduce: Go to https://www.google.com/?q=mozilla+bugzilla Click link to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ Actual results: Google redirect (I don't copy link cause it looks like it has private information) Expected results: goes to the link that is in the href and context menu similar, but differn't is when the content of the link is a valid uri <a href="redirect>http://foo.example/</a>, for example youtube's external link interstitial This is a potential phishing issue, when the UI indicates one destination, and you go somewhere else.

The correct solution would be the ping attribute: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a

I'm going to mark this bug as duplicate of Bug 257307.