Bug 12300 – Command-clicking on named anchor link after clicking on it never opens new tabs

• Status: NEW
• Component: Page Loading

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Summary:

After clicking on a named anchor link  (<a href="#foo">link</a>), additional command-clicking does not open new tabs.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Attachment 12006 [details] from Bug 11960.
2. Click on the link once.
3. Command-click on the link.

Expected Results:

A new tab should be opened to the named anchor link.

Actual Results:

Nothing happens.

Regression:

Shipping Safari 2.0.4 (419.3) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 (8L127) behaves the same way.

Notes:

Firefox 2.0.0.1 allows you to command-click as many times as you want on the link to open additional tabs (after performing Steps 1 and 2).

Tested with locally-built debug build of WebKit r18906 with afari 2.0.4 (419.3) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 (8L127).

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

<rdar://problem/4930513>

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

On Windows, use Control-Click instead of Command-Click.  See Bug 16246.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

*** Bug 16246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Paul de Haan]

Note:
I think it's either JavaScriptCore or JavaScriptGlue that deals with this.
Because of the Safari 2.0.4 functionality I hacked together a stand-alone version to be able to still use it.  Since it's a hige timesaver and Safari 2 was the only browser supporting this...

Browse to http://klant.smart-tel.nl or http://customer.sipnl.net
Login: webkittest  Password: 1toomany
When in the overview, click on "Accounts"
In the next page, click on the button "Show accounts".
You see two lines with account-id's.
Command-click on one of the account-id's.

When doing this with
- Safari Version 2.0.4 (419.3), a tab opens with the page showing the account details.
- All other versions load the page in the current tab.
- Firefox/2.0.0.11 does open a new tab, it doesn't load the page

Running: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S165)

I miss the functionality deerly in the current version of Safari and the latest build of the webkit.

Regards,
Paul

[Paul de Haan]

Nightly build: WebKit-SVN-r29550
Fixed command-click in part. Some links do open again in a new tab.
- URL's
- Javascript pull-down menu's the login-environmet I provided earlier

It does not yet open the Javascript-links provided on the Web-pages.

Thanks!
/Paul

[John Schumacher]

Can confirm right click will not open tabs in r73490

[aONe]

I confirm too that right click does not open links in new tabs in r73490. I'm with Mac version, Spanish localization.