Moblin Browser

New page will always be opened in current tab instead of new tab

Bug #153568 reported by Zhao Fan
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Moblin Browser
Fix Released
Medium
cwong1

Bug Description

Bug detailed description:
--------------------------
Image: 10/15 image

When I click a link in the current page to open a new page (such as in google seach result page), the new page will be opened in current tab, instead of a new tab. The issue is a usability issue, and did not happen in previous images.

Reproduce steps:
----------------
1. Open www.google.com
2. search something such as "intel"
3. Click a link searched by google

Current result:
----------------
The new page will be opened in current tab, not a new tab

Expected result:
----------------
The new page should be able to open in a new tab

Basic root-causing log:
----------------------

Zhao Fan (fan-zhao)
Changed in moblin-browser:
assignee: nobody → carl-wong
importance: Undecided → Medium
cwong1 (carl-wong)
Changed in moblin-browser:
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Zhao Fan (fan-zhao) wrote :

The issue is still there. If I use the same proxy on a linux desktop, the page will be opened in new tab. Not sure what causes this.

Revision history for this message
cwong1 (carl-wong) wrote :

Can you give me another example of a new window?

I try the google, search for intel and click on one of the link and it shows up in the current tab. This behavior is the same on a regular firefox.

Do yo uhave an example that the link actually tries to open up a new window?

Carl

Revision history for this message
Zhao Fan (fan-zhao) wrote : RE: [Bug 153568] Re: New page will always be opened in current tabinstead of new tab

With firefox installed in my linux or windows desktop, when I click a link searched by google, always a new tab will be opened to display the linked page, but on midbrowser, the page will show up in current tab as what you see. I start to doubt that this is due to proxy or something else of the network environment, but not sure, let me do investigation and update this bug.

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of cwong1
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:58 AM
To: Zhao, Fan
Subject: [Bug 153568] Re: New page will always be opened in current tabinstead of new tab

Can you give me another example of a new window?

I try the google, search for intel and click on one of the link and it
shows up in the current tab. This behavior is the same on a regular
firefox.

Do yo uhave an example that the link actually tries to open up a new
window?

Carl

--
New page will always be opened in current tab instead of new tab
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153568
You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
of the bug.

Revision history for this message
cwong1 (carl-wong) wrote :

Changed the browser preference browser.link.open_newwindow from 1 to 3. This will direct the content to go to a new tab instead of the current tab/window.

Changed in moblin-browser:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Zhao Fan (fan-zhao)
Changed in moblin-browser:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.
Subscribing...

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.