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Status: Archived
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Closed: Jul 23
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Regression



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middle clicking a link puts the link url in the current tab's status bar; requires click to go away

Reported by freddie....@gmail.com, Jul 17 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Middle click an (external?) link on a page
2. Watch as the URL appears in the status bar; a click dismisses it

What is the expected behavior?
Dunno if this is a bug or expected behavior, but it's annoying.  A flag to stop it would be nice.

What went wrong?
1. Middle click an (external?) link on a page
2. Watch as the URL appears in the status bar; a click dismisses it

Did this work before? Yes 

Chrome version: 58.0.3029.110  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 26.0 r0
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M59
Cc: timbrown@chromium.org
Thanks for raising the bug. I'm a little confused by the behavior you are describing and I can't reproduce it.

When you hover over a link, it should appear in the status bar - no middle click required.

If you move the mouse away from the link (whether you have clicked it or not), the status bar should disappear within a second or so.

Are you seeing something different? Are you able to capture a video of the behavior you are describing?
Thanks for replying!

My issue is when you're on a page, say Facebook.  You see a link in your feed.  You middle click it (mouse wheel button) to open it in a new tab.  Once you do, the URL of the new tab (opened via the middle click) shows up in the *current* tab, ie Facebook.

Let me know if I need to be more descriptive!
An update, so far I've only been able to reproduce this on Facebook, so it may be  something they're doing.
This is weird.  Now I can reproduce this on single left clicking a 'go to latest post' icon on a vBulletin forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef6QtraabC0&feature=youtu.be
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Comment 6 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jul 23

Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
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