Open Bug 1327594 Opened 8 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Middle-Clicking links on about:addons inconsistently opens them in background/foreground tabs

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox50 --- affected
firefox51 --- affected
firefox52 --- wontfix
firefox53 --- affected
firefox86 --- unaffected

People

(Reporter: arni2033, Unassigned)

Details

>>>   My Info:   Win7_64, Nightly 49, 32bit, ID 20160526082509
STR_1:
1. Open about:addons, open new tab.
2. Switch to the tab with about:addons, go to "Plugins" -> OpenH264
3. Middle-click on link "License information"
4. Middle-click on link "Homepage"  (http://www.openh264.org/)

AR:
 Step 2 - link opens in a new background tab next to about:addons
 Step 3 - link opens in a new FOREGROUND tab in the end of list of tabs
ER:
 Step 3 - link should open in a new background tab next to current tab, just like a normal link
         (reference of good behavior - AR of Step 2)
No longer blocks: 1277113
Tested on Mac OS X 10.10 and Windows 7 x32 and I can reproduce with FF 50 release, FF 51 beta, FF 52 Aurora, and with Nighlty 53.0a1(2016-01-03). 
I tested with FF 44 and here step 4 is not applicable, the link doesn't open with middle-click.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox50: --- → affected
status-firefox51: --- → affected
status-firefox52: --- → affected
status-firefox53: --- → affected
Component: Untriaged → Event Handling
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Unspecified → All
Product: Firefox → Core
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Component: Event Handling → Keyboard Navigation
Product: Core → Firefox
Too late for firefox 52, mass-wontfix.
status-firefox52: affected → wontfix

Tested on FF 86, this is is fixed. I suggest this gets closed.

status-firefox86: --- → unaffected
Severity: normal → S3
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