Bug#548428: epiphany-webkit fails to handle target="_blank" properly

[David Weinehall]

Package: epiphany-webkit
Version: 2.28.0-3
Severity: major

Links with the attribute target="_blank" are handled incorrectly;
clicking on such a link should open a new window and open the link in
question in that said window.  Middle-clicking on the link should
open a new tab in the same manner.

Instead, e-w always opens a new window that usually ends up blank (I've
seen it work sometimes; it seems pretty random whether it works or not
-- most of the time it doesn't work, however), even when
middle-clicking.  For extra "fun", the new window is ridiculously small
by default (this might be because it lacks content though -- not sure).

This bug means that following any bugs from, for instance, google mail
fails, thus setting severity to major since it's a very high profile
use-case to a lot of people.

PS: It should be noted that this might of course be a bug in
libwebkit-1.0-2 rather than epiphany-webkit, I don't know enough about
the innards of epiphany/webkit to tell.


Regards: David Weinehall
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