The no-popups rule blocks "Open in a new tab" user action (original) (raw)

Hi,

Describe the issue

With no-popups: * true it becomes impossible to open a new tab by highlighting text that happens to be a URL, right clicking it and selecting Open link in a new tab. The issue also occurs when opening in a new contextual tab or in a new window, private or not.

It does not happen with "Search with ... for ..." or the regular Open link in current tab.

One or more specific URLs where the issue occurs

Any URL that can be highlighted and right clicked in order to be opened in a new tab.
e.g. https://github.com/gorhill

Steps for anyone to reproduce the issue

  1. On a default profile with default uBO configuration, set the dynamic filtering rule no-popups: * true
  2. Open uBO's logger
  3. Highlight the following text, right click it and select "Open link in a new tab": https://github.com/gorhill
  4. See that the new tab is not opened. uBO's logger shows that the no-popups rule has been triggered

It would be nice if uBO could detect this and open that kind of pop-up, which is reported as such by browsers but arguably it's not a pop up any more than a middle click on a link such as this is. Since middle click works in spite of the no-popups rule, it would be coherent to unify behaviour if possible.

Thanks for looking into this!

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