Closed Bug 1319515 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

In the newest version of firefoxdevelopers edition (52.0a2) target="_blank" creates a about:blank instead of opening the link in a new tab it does this when the href="" is a .pdf file

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
52 Branch
Platform:
Unspecified
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1301056

People

(Reporter: yannick.frisart, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20161122004020

Steps to reproduce:

Have a link for example:
<a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">Google</a>
click the link


Actual results:

It opens a new tab at about:blank


Expected results:

Open a new tab with the link google.com
OS: Unspecified → Mac OS X
(In reply to yannick from comment #0)
> User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
> Build ID: 20161122004020
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> Have a link for example:
> <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">Google</a>
> click the link
> 
> 
> Actual results:
> 
> It opens a new tab at about:blank
> 
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> Open a new tab with the link google.com

Correction it does this when the href location is a .pdf file 

All other files types seem to work fine for me
Summary: In the newest version of firefoxdevelopers edition (52.0a2) target="_blank" creates a about:blank instead of opening the link in a new tab → In the newest version of firefoxdevelopers edition (52.0a2) target="_blank" creates a about:blank instead of opening the link in a new tab it does this when the href="" is a .pdf file
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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