Middle click on toolbar buttons does not open their tabs anymore

[githubusr0]

For example, addons or downloads buttons when middle-clicked used to open full sized tabs. It was very useful, depending on which purpose I'm pursuing, I used to click addons with left mouse click to enable or disable them quickly, and in other scenario I used middle click to open addons tab and customize options etc..

[RDL-github]

AiOS 0.7.29 is an emergency release to avoid problems with Firefox 48.0.

It re-enables opening of panels in the sidebar, which is what AiOS is for. However, the emergency fix version no longer allows the features to instead open those panels in new windows or tabs.

It is still possible to use the double headed arrow in the AiOS sidebar header to:

Open current sidebar content in a new window ( Shift+Click on double headed arrow ) Open current sidebar content in a new tab ( Ctrl+Click on double headed arrow ) Open current content area (webpage) display in the sidebar ( Click on double headed arrow )

In two cases, there are alternative circumventions.

1) The 'Page Info' button (hovering over it shows the tooltipt text "Display extensive information about a web page");

Because of a pre-existing and known AiOS bug, displaying that panel in the sidebar shows no information.

The circumvention was to use AiOS facilities (Settings or other) to instead display in a new window (?or tab?), which, in the circumstances, can only be done by displaying in the sidebar and then using Shift+Click on the double headed arrow..

CIRCUMVENTION for the missing circumvention. A little tedious, but:

When a page is displayed, click on its icon in the 'Location' (address) bar. In the resulting panel, click on the right-hand arrow (top right in the panel) In the resulting panel, click on "More Information".

If I do all that I see all the usual page information in a new window.

2) The 'Error Console' (hovering over it shows the tooltipt text "Open the Error Console, which tracks problems with source code");

That displays fully and correctly in the sidebar but it can be useful to instead view the messages in a new window.

CIRCUMVENTION: Use the 'Browser Console' Instead.

Menu Path: FF Menu - 'Tools' - 'Web Developer' - 'Browser Console' but there is a much quicker route by keyboard shortcut 'Ctrl-Shift-J')

[ingowennemaring]

Thanks @RDL-github! I will close this issue as a duplicate.

[RDL-github]

@ingowennemaring

Thanks @RDL-github! I will close this issue as a duplicate.

I don't think this is a duplicate, is it, as it deals only with the withdrawal of the 'new page' and 'new tab' features, which I do not recall seeing mentioned in any other bug reports? Was it? If not, then it is a different problem from those. I realise that you did imply it in the version notes on AMO but I think that this user doesn't understand what that means.

I've trimmed my reply to only address that problem, in case you feel my inclusion of extra, more general assistance just confused things.

[Edit] Well, I thought I had edited it but I was half asleep, so.. Anyway, now I have :D [/Edit]

VBRR