Multiple container tabs opened on clicking a link

[krishnanunnir]

• Multi-Account Containers Version:
• Operating System + Version: Mac OS Catalina 10.15.1
• Firefox Version: 72.01
• Other installed Add-ons + Version + Enabled/Disabled-Status:

Actual behavior

When I am trying to open a youtube video from Duckduckgo videos, the same video gets opened in multiple tabs

Expected behavior

Only one tab should open containing the video

Steps to reproduce

1. Search for a keyword on DuckDuckGo videos
2. Choose a youtube option from the videos

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task

[grouvig]

Same issue, when opening a link from one container tab to another container tab with middle click, two or more tabs are opened for the target container.

I reproduce it with a facebook container and a google container: With only one tab open in Firefox I google facebook in this tab. Then I middle click facebook. This opens two tabs in facebook container.

In can reproduce it everytime I am in any container and then open a link with middle click to another container.

Doing the same with duckduckgo, instead of google, for which I have no container, only opens one facebook tab as expected.

Now with only one tab open in firefox, I open facebook in this tab. In another tab I google facebook. Then I middle click facebook. Now only one facebook tab is opened as expected.

Conclusion: Everytime I am in a container a middle click on a link opens two container tabs if there is not another tab already opened for the target container.

[krishnanunnir]

@grouvig Woah! that is pretty comprehensive. Great work man.

I had ditched firefox for a while and came back, I didn't face this issue afterwards, don't know why.

[sammcj]

Issue still occurring on Firefox 85.0b9 (64bit) macOS Big Sir 11.1 with Youtube, Amazon and Reddit containers.

[siffegh]

This problem has supposedly been resolved in a couple of other bugs, but it persists for me.

Win7/FF 87.0/FF Multi-Account Containers 7.3.0

From within a containerized site, clicking a link to a different containerized site opens two tabs.

[AgnosticCrayonEater]

This is also still happening for me.

Windows 10 / Firefox Developer 88.0b9 (64-bit) / Firefox Multi-Account Containers 7.3.0

When I click a link from a Reddit container that opens in Twitter, Amazon or Facebook containers I got double of the new container tab.

[sammcj]

Can confirm is still an issue in Firefox 88.0b9 on macOS, Multi-Account Containers Version 7.3.0

[siffegh]

Still happening on FF 88.0.

[grahamperrin]

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1617#issuecomment-807496689

… From within a containerized site, clicking a link to a different containerized site opens two tabs.

With blog.mozilla.org assigned to Personal and www.mozilla.org assigned to Work:

• at the foot of https://blog.mozilla.org/ a Control-Click on Firefox opens just one new tab in the Work container.

@krishnanunnir please, can you give this issue a title that is distinctive and (partly) self-explanatory? Thanks

[grahamperrin]

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1617#issuecomment-713043786

middle click

For those of us without middle-clicks:

Use mouse shortcuts to perform common tasks in Firefox | Firefox Help

Open link in new Tab | Middle-click on Link

[grouvig]

Comment form grahamperrin

• at the foot of https://blog.mozilla.org/ a Control-Click on Firefox opens just one new tab in the Work container.

In my case with a Control-Click on a link to a different containerized site, it opens two tabs in the target container.

[grahamperrin]

In my case with a Control-Click …

With reference to your case:

• steps at https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/944503076e3d86ac464fdd5b2b96e85c

Following the steps, a screen recording:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/192271/116642531-0a08b300-a967-11eb-8058-7a6312bae269.mp4

In the final thirty seconds, Control-Click within a Google container produces:

• a single new tab in a Facebook container
• no duplication.

Please, can someone expand the steps? Or provide alternative steps; be precise.

To make this issue reproducible with a new profile.

Thanks

[grouvig]

I found what happens in my case. The problem is related to this add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-outgoing-links/. After disabling this add-on it works as expected.

But I loose the ability, when clicking a link in a containerized tab to open non containerized websites in the default container. This is a feature I really miss in multi-account-containers.

[grahamperrin]

Re: opening post https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1617#issue-552199480:

@krishnanunnir is there truly no other add-on?

Is Multi-Account Containers the one and only extension to Firefox?

[mannfuri]

https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-CN/firefox/addon/new-tab-from-location-bar/

for me , this extension make this happen.