Opens a blank tab when clicking outside links on Reddit.

[Stealth3]

If I click a link to another site on Reddit it just opens a blank website (about:blank in the url bar). It works though if I right click on the link and open it.

[KevinRoebert]

Hi, can you give an example url?

[Stealth3]

https://www.reddit.com/r/thewalkingdead/

or go to any subreddit.

Find a link to an outside site (Maggie Grace joins Fear The Walking Dead Season 4) (http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/906113-maggie-grace-joins-fear-the-walking-dead-season-4)

I click it and it just opens about:blank.

[grahamperrin]

Environment

Waterfox 56.0 on FreeBSD-CURRENT

[grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook8570p-freebsd] ~% date ; uname -v
Fri  8 Dec 2017 03:00:59 GMT
FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r320869: Mon Jul 10 13:57:55 UTC 2017     root@releng3.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
[grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook8570p-freebsd] ~% pkg info waterfox | grep -i version
Version        : 56.0.s20171203
[grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-hpelitebook8570p-freebsd] ~% 

Steps to produce an empty page – not about:blank

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7cqeng/webassembly_support_now_shipping_in_all_major/
2. Control-Click the linked phrase, WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers

Expected

• https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/13/webassembly-in-browsers/ in a new tab

Actual result

• https://out.reddit.com/t3_7cqeng?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.mozilla.org%2Fblog%2F2017%2F11%2F13%2Fwebassembly-in-browsers%2F&token=AQAA5w0qWhTy3kNQXbE5OU-UjpcVdgtwVr1uyH_l0ddLiBzf3PGV&app_name=reddit.com in a new tab, as an empty page without progress to the expected URL

Workaround

• switch off the Filters feature of ClearURLs 1.1.2.5
• reload the referring (Reddit) page, repeat steps (1) and (2).

[KevinRoebert]

Does it help?

[Stealth3]

Does what help? There was no update to the add-on.

[KevinRoebert]

Does what help? There was no update to the add-on.

This was the update...

KevinRoebert closed this in 4025f6b 7 hours ago

[Thorin-Oakenpants]

FYI: using @grahamperrin steps to reproduce & ClearURLs 1.1.2.5

• went to https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7cqeng/webassembly_support_now_shipping_in_all_major/
• clicked on title
• I get the page ( https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/13/webassembly-in-browsers/ ) in the *SAME tab

With ClearURLs disabled, I get the same behavior. So the fix seems to be working - thanks

[Stealth3]

It's working correctly now for me it seems! I tried turning off the filters before and turning them back on (to manually update them? not sure if that works) and it didn't fix anything. I tried it again and restarted the browser and now Reddit links seem to be working as intended. I'm glad graham could explain my issue in great depth and thank you Kevin for fixing it!

Edit: I was half asleep when I first read your comment Kevin and thought you said "there was an update". Am I to believe that nothing has changed though actually and it just started working for some reason for me?

[KevinRoebert]

ClearURLs load the new rule file only on browser start :)