Links open twice with Firefox 30.0

[handrawn]

I think egg might know what the 'cross-site forgery' is - came up in another thread - basically it means that the xara site considers your browser to be infected with a kind of malware.... I think:

"Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is a type of attack that occurs when a malicious Web site, email, blog, instant message, or program causes a user’s Web browser to perform an unwanted action on a trusted site for which the user is currently authenticated."

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cros...on_Cheat_Sheet

[Ken Anderson]

Guess I don't understand "JQuery Wrapper." Attempted to place your code example into a page header placeholder. No error message, but no effect, either. Think there must be more to it than simply inserting that code.

I've put a note on that site alerting people of the double-opening problem with external links in Firefox 30.0 Will have to get by with that until I can find a way to get a ticket request submitted.

Thanks!

[Acorn]

Guess I don't understand "JQuery Wrapper." Attempted to place your code example into a page header placeholder. No error message, but no effect, either. Think there must be more to it than simply inserting that code.

I've put a note on that site alerting people of the double-opening problem with external links in Firefox 30.0 Will have to get by with that until I can find a way to get a ticket request submitted.

Thanks!

Ken
My code would be preceded with: <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
There was a chance that you already had JQuery running and I don't like overloading a web page with unnecessary calls.

Remember you need to remove the open in new window/tab attribute in the Web Properties, otherwise nothing will change.

Acorn

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>$("a[href^='http']").attr('target','_blank');</script>

[Ken Anderson]

Finally got a ticket request submitted and confirmed. When I hear back from Xara, I'll post info here.

Thanks again to all of you ...

[letsgofishing]

I've just added some external links from my site - they work fine in FF, IE and Chrome but double tabs open in Opera....

[Rob-Xar]

This problem has been fixed internally and we're just waiting for it to be deployed via a patch soon. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Thanks
Rob

[letsgofishing]

Thanks for the news Rob.

[ksiads]

I'm having the same problem as the OP, except my _blank links are opening double tabs from simple paragraph text (not from graphics or script calls).

It looks like Xara is formatting my paragraph text using <span> tags (as line breaks), then applying separate a href= tags to each <span>, thus causing Firefox to interpret as two unique links to open simultaneously. See source sample below in red:

 <img class="xr_rn_ xr_ap" src="index_html_files/1197.png" alt="" title="" style="left: 744px; top: 580px; width: 195px; height: 241px;"/>
 <span class="xr_ar" style="left: 47px; top: 600px; width: 421px; height: 299px; border: 1px solid #000000;"></span>
 <div class="Normal_text" style="position: absolute; left:59px; top:625px; width:397px; height:286px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:18px;color:#000000;">
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: -17px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:18px;color:#000000;"><span class="Normal_text" style="font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:18px;text-decoration:underline;color:#000000;">Face to Face</span></span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 13px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">The first program to receive funding from the </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 25px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">Stan and Jan Healthy Kids Foundation is Face </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 37px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">to Face: The Craniofacial Program Portrait </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 49px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">Project, which uses the intimate process of </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 61px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">portrait painting to help children deal with the </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 74px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">psychosocial effects of craniofacial conditions </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 86px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">and to tell their stories of perseverance and </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 98px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">resilience to a world often obsessed with </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 110px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">appearances. The project is a partnership </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 122px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">between <a href="http://www.studioincamminati.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return(xr_nn());" onmousemove="xr_mo(this,0)" >Studio Incamminati, School for </a></span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 134px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.studioincamminati.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return(xr_nn());" onmousemove="xr_mo(this,0)" >Contemporary Realist Art</a>; <a href="http://www.chop.edu/service/plastic-and-reconstructive-surgery/our-programs/craniofacial-deformations.html" target="_blank" onclick="return(xr_nn());" onmousemove="xr_mo(this,0)" >The Craniofacial </a></span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 146px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.chop.edu/service/plastic-and-reconstructive-surgery/our-programs/craniofacial-deformations.html" target="_blank" onclick="return(xr_nn());" onmousemove="xr_mo(this,0)" >Program at The Children's Hospital of </a></span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 158px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.chop.edu/service/plastic-and-reconstructive-surgery/our-programs/craniofacial-deformations.html" target="_blank" onclick="return(xr_nn());" onmousemove="xr_mo(this,0)" >Philadelphia</a>, and the <a href="http://www.pennmedicine.org/cha/" target="_blank" onclick="return(xr_nn());" onmousemove="xr_mo(this,0)" >Edwin and Fannie Gray </a></span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 171px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.pennmedicine.org/cha/" target="_blank" onclick="return(xr_nn());" onmousemove="xr_mo(this,0)" >Center for Human Appearance at the </a></span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="left: 158px; top: 183px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.pennmedicine.org/cha/" target="_blank" onclick="return(xr_nn());" onmousemove="xr_mo(this,0)" >University of Pennsylvania</a>. </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="top: 207px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">Participating patients with craniofacial conditions are each paired with an </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="top: 219px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">artist who paints their portrait over the course of several months and multiple </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="top: 231px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">sittings, and the results have shown a positive impact on the participants' </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="top: 243px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">self-image. With its innovative combination of art and medicine, Face to Face </span>
  <span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="top: 256px;font-family:Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#000000;">aligns perfectly with the mission of the Foundation.</span>

I can manually fix the code on the server to correct it in post-published form but that would mean Xara would keep breaking it every time I published a revision.

Does anyone know when the patch might be made available or a better solution to fix the problem in the interim?

[Egg Bramhill]

The patch was released earlier today. Open Xara and it should instruct you re the new patch.