petea/sage — Issue #56: Always open in new tab
Author: petea
Created: 2011-11-21 05:56:47+00:00
State: open

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Sage 1.4.10, Firefox 4
2. Open Sage sidebar, click a feed
3. Click on an article

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Strictly the expect result is to open in the current active tab however I would like to set the Open in new tab to the default. Over the history of Sage this has been a browser setting that is either not respected or buggy and has never been something that Sage has a preference to tweak specifically for Sage.

On some installations this works. I have no idea why. Then mysteriously it stops working.

I always use Tab Mix Plus which provides my open in new tab behaviour for the url bar, search box, bookmarks etc. However historically either Sage does not respect the settings of Tab Mix Plus or something else it wrong.

What version of Sage are you using?

1.4.10

What version of Firefox are you using? On what operating system?

4. I'd give you the whole UA string however the idiots have obscured that from Help -> About. Windows Vista build 6002 fully patched. This problem also happens on Windows XP though.

Please provide any additional information below.

My extensions (in case of compat issues)

<p>Application: Firefox 4.0 (20110318052756)<br />
Operating System: WINNT (x86-msvc)</p>

<p>Total number of items: 29</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://adblockplus.org/en/">Adblock Plus 1.3.3</a>
<br />January 3, 2011 21:46:46
<br />Firefox 3.5 - 4.2a1pre
<br />prism@developer.mozilla.org 1.0b1 - 1.0.*
<br />SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1b2
<br />Songbird 1.9.0a - 1.10.0a
<br />Thunderbird 3.0 - 3.3a1pre
<br />{a23983c0-fd0e-11dc-95ff-0800200c9a66} 1.0 - 1.1.*
<br />{a79fe89b-6662-4ff4-8e88-09950ad4dfde} 0.1 - 100.0
</li>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/collections">Add-on Collector 2.0</a>
<br />March 23, 2011 10:51:44
<br />September 15, 2010 11:22:45
<br />Firefox 3.6 - 4.0.*
<br />SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1b1
<br />Thunderbird 2.0 - 3.3a4pre
<br />{a23983c0-fd0e-11dc-95ff-0800200c9a66} 1.0 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/">ChatZilla 0.9.86.1</a>
<br />March 21, 2011 16:27:25
<br />Firefox 1.0 - 4.0.*
<br />Flock 0.4 - 1.0+
<br />Mozilla 1.0 - 1.8
<br />SeaMonkey 1.0 - 2.0.*
<br />Songbird 0.7 - 1.0
<br />{3db10fab-e461-4c80-8b97-957ad5f8ea47} 9.0b1 - 9.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.andyhalford.com/checkplaces/index.html">CheckPlaces 2.4.5</a>
<br />March 21, 2011 16:27:25
<br />Firefox 3.0 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.colorzilla.com/">ColorZilla 2.5.5</a>
<br />March 23, 2011 10:51:56
<br />September 15, 2010 11:22:53
<br />Firefox 3.0 - 4.0.*
<br />SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.diigo.com/">Diigo Toolbar 5.1.0.22</a>
<br />March 25, 2011 16:30:59
<br />Firefox 3.5 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/">Download Statusbar 0.9.8</a>
<br />March 21, 2011 10:31:02
<br />Firefox 3.6 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.captaincaveman.nl">Drag & DropZones 1.5.1</a>
<br />March 23, 2011 12:05:13
<br />Firefox 2.0 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://adblockplus.org/en/elemhidehelper">Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus 1.1.1</a>
<br />March 21, 2011 10:31:02
<br />Firefox 3.5 - 4.2a1pre
<br />prism@developer.mozilla.org 1.0b1 - 1.0.*
<br />SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1b3
<br />Songbird 1.9.0a - 1.10.0a
<br />Thunderbird 3.0 - 3.3a3pre
<br />{a79fe89b-6662-4ff4-8e88-09950ad4dfde} 0.1 - 100.0
</li>
<li><a href="http://ed.agadak.net/">Enter Selects 6</a>
<br />November 10, 2009 19:22:14
<br />Firefox 3.0 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://kondor.etf.bg.ac.yu/~kustodian/mozilla/esb">Extended Statusbar 1.5.7</a>
<br />February 21, 2011 10:18:52
<br />Firefox 2.0 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.sogame.cat/">Extension List Dumper 1.15.0</a>
<br />March 28, 2011 11:19:43
<br />Firefox 1.5 - 4.0.*
<br />Flock 1.0 - 2.*
<br />Songbird 0.4 - 1.10.0a
<br />Sunbird 0.3 - 0.9
<br />Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.1.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.getfirebug.com/">Firebug 1.7.0</a>
<br />March 23, 2011 10:50:01
<br />February 8, 2011 16:05:12
<br />Firefox 4.0b12 - 4.0.*
<br />toolkit@mozilla.org 2.0.0 - 2.0.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefontfamily/?src=api">FireFontFamily 0.1.1</a>
<br />March 21, 2011 10:31:02
<br />Firefox 3.5 - 4.2a1pre
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.xuldev.org/firegestures/">FireGestures 1.6.1</a>
<br />January 4, 2011 12:18:07
<br />Firefox 3.5 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://screenshot-program.com/fireshot/">FireShot 0.88</a>
<br />January 7, 2011 15:36:22
<br />Firefox 2.0 - 4.0.*
<br />SeaMonkey 2.0a1 - 2.1b2
<br />Thunderbird 2.0 - 3.3a1pre
</li>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/13505/">Hide Caption Titlebar Plus 2.1.6</a>
<br />February 2, 2011 10:26:48
<br />Firefox 3.5 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/">Html Validator 0.9.0.4</a>
<br />March 23, 2011 10:51:54
<br />January 29, 2010 11:23:31
<br />Firefox 4.0b1 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.graysonmixon.com/extension/">IE View Lite 1.3.5</a>
<br />September 15, 2009 19:05:06
<br />Firefox 3.1a1pre - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/">Image Zoom 0.4.6</a>
<br />January 4, 2011 12:18:08
<br />Firefox 3.0 - 4.0.*
<br />SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*
<br />Thunderbird 2.0 - 3.1.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://frayd.us/">MeasureIt 0.4.7</a>
<br />March 23, 2011 10:51:30
<br />October 25, 2010 10:09:27
<br />Firefox 1.0 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/">Page Speed 1.10.2</a>
<br />February 16, 2011 10:26:38
<br />toolkit@mozilla.org 1.9.0.5 - 2.0.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://code.kliu.org/quickdrag/">QuickDrag 2.1.0.1</a>
<br />March 9, 2011 12:12:00
<br />Firefox 2.0a1 - 4.0.*
<br />SeaMonkey 2.0b1pre - 2.1b3
</li>
<li><a href="http://sagerss.com">Sage 1.4.10</a>
<br />March 25, 2011 16:18:03
<br />Firefox 3.0b1 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/?src=api">Status-4-Evar 2011.03.21.22</a>
<br />March 23, 2011 10:54:39
<br />Firefox 4.0 - 4.2a1pre
</li>
<li><a href="http://userstyles.org/">Stylish 1.1.1</a>
<br />March 4, 2011 11:27:59
<br />Firefox 3.5 - 4.0.*
<br />SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1b1
<br />Thunderbird 3.0 - 3.1.*
<br />toolkit@mozilla.org 1.9.1 - 2.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://tmp.garyr.net">Tab Mix Plus 0.3.8.5</a>
<br />March 7, 2011 12:46:52
<br />Firefox 3.5 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://jennifermadden.com">View Source Chart 3.02</a>
<br />September 9, 2010 16:48:45
<br />Firefox 1.0 - 4.0.*
</li>
<li><a href="http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/">Web Developer 1.1.9</a>
<br />January 7, 2011 15:36:22
<br />Firefox 1.0 - 4.0.*
<br />Flock 1.0 - 2.6.*
<br />SeaMonkey 1.0 - 2.0.*
</li>
</ul>

Original link: http://code.google.com/p/sage/issues/detail?id=57