Closed Bug 1474188 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

New tab page is not consumed when a extension opens a new tab or when middle clicking a bookmark

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 320989
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox61 --- affected
firefox62 --- affected
firefox63 --- affected

People

(Reporter: medhefgo, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0 Build ID: 20180705213349 Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a new tab 2a. Open a bookmark by middle clicking it in the bookmarks menu 2b. Open a extension-provided tab (Brief or uBlock Origin Dashboard for example) Actual results: A new tab is opened instead of "consuming" the new tab page. Expected results: If a new tab page is focused, it should be consumed like it does when you open preferences. Another example is using Alt+Enter shortcut to open in new tab from the address bar: when trying to do so in the new tab page, it just uses that one.
I managed to reproduce this issue on Firefox 61.0.1, 62.0b7 and Nightly 63.0a1 (2018-07-11), Ubuntu 16.04.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox61: --- → affected
status-firefox62: --- → affected
status-firefox63: --- → affected
Component: Untriaged → Event Handling
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Core
Version: 61 Branch → Trunk
Component: Event Handling → Tabbed Browser
Product: Core → Firefox
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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