Bug#802236: epiphany-browser: unable to open new tab

[Gerald Zehetner]

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 3.18.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I'm not able to open a new tab by clicking on the "new tab" toolbar-button.
The new tab shows up, loads the "most visited"-page and when finished loading it automatically closes.

When opening a new tab by middle-clicking on a link the tab shows up and stays even when loading is finished.

I've made a screencast so you can see the behavior: http://zege.at/debian-screencast.webm

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                     1.10.0-3
ii  epiphany-browser-data        3.18.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme             3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic    3.12.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas    3.18.0-1
ii  iso-codes                    3.62-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                  2.18.0-1
ii  libavahi-client3             0.6.31-5
ii  libavahi-common3             0.6.31-5
ii  libavahi-gobject0            0.6.31-5
ii  libc6                        2.19-22
ii  libcairo-gobject2            1.14.2-2
ii  libcairo2                    1.14.2-2
ii  libgcr-base-3-1              3.18.0-1
ii  libgcr-ui-3-1                3.18.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0           2.32.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.46.0-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-10        3.16.2-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                   3.16.6-1
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18  2.10.0+dfsg1-1
ii  libnotify4                   0.7.6-2
ii  libnspr4                     2:4.10.9-2
ii  libnspr4-0d                  2:4.10.9-2
ii  libnss3                      2:3.20-1
ii  libnss3-1d                   2:3.20-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0               1.38.0-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0          1.38.0-3
ii  libsecret-1-0                0.18.3-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                 2.52.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                 3.8.11.1-1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37         2.10.0+dfsg1-1
ii  libwnck-3-0                  3.14.0-2
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxml2                      2.9.2+zdfsg1-4
ii  libxslt1.1                   1.1.28-2+b2

Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20150426
ii  evince           3.18.0-1
ii  yelp             3.16.1-1

epiphany-browser suggests no packages.

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