[PLUG] Firefox update broke tab settings

[Dale Snell]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:49:57 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:28:04 -0800
> wes <plug at the-wes.com> dijo:
> 
> >how hard would it be for you to hold down the CTRL key while clicking
> >your links?
> >
> >I know it's sub-optimal but still better than clicking Back for every
> >tab. I have no idea on getting it to work the way you describe; I
> >imagine it's a bug that was introduced in this version which will
> >likely be fixed in a future version.
> 
> I can right-click and then select "open in new tab," if I remember to
> do so. Ctrl-click doesn't seem to work, though.
> 
> And I just discovered another problem. When I click on a mailto link
> it now opens a second instance of Claws-Mail and two compose windows. 
> 
> Did anyone test this release, or are we all the alpha testers?

John, I've tried to reproduce your failure here, and I can't.  I'm
running FF 17.0.1; normally I use Tab Mix Plus and Colorful Tabs,
but I disabled them for this test.

Left-clicking on a link opens that link in the current tab.
Right-clicking gives me a context menu with the options to open
the link in a new tab or a new window.  Middle-clicking opens the
link in a new tab, but retains focus in the original tab.
Control-left-clicking has the same result as middle-clicking.

On the other hand, clicking on a "mailto:" link did indeed open a
new instance of Claws-Mail.  (I tried it just now while composing
this reply.)  This seems reasonable to me, but I admit that I've 
never had much call to use "mailto:" links, so I don't know what
any previous behavior would have been.

Ennyhoo, the only thing I can think of is that there is something
odd set in your profile.  Try renaming your ~/.mozilla/firefox
directory to something else, and then see how Firefox behaves.

Sorry I couldn't be more help.

--Dale

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