Closed
Bug 248449
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
Firefox opens a new tab/window when external link clicked.
Categories
(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 172962
People
(Reporter: rfdeshon, Assigned: bugs)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9 Firefox .9 opens a new tab (Sometimes window) when an external link is clicked even though i have made sure that advanced.system.supportDDEExec is set to true. This is annoying and makes me want to roll back to .8 VERY badly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open browser, fire up a program that has a weblink (I.E. Yahoo Messenger or an Email Client) 2. Click a link in the other program 3. Marvel at the new link or window. Actual Results: Page loads in new tab or window Expected Results: Reused the tab that was currently in focus. I am using Tabbrowser Extensions and have it set up to only use one window w/ multiple tabs but it is not set up to open links in a new tab instead of in the current one.
Comment 2•20 years ago
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Read the comments on bug 172962, if you have anything else to add, comment there. Also notice that if extensions bugs should be filed in mozdev. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 172962 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
The problem here is not that diff apps do diff things.... Firefox NEVER reuses the current window like the old version did..... thats my problem.... the other bug had the problem that some programs reused an old window and some used the topmost one... my problem is different, i have everything set up right but Firefox STILL refuses to use the topmost window.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Comment 5•20 years ago
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THIS IS A DUPLICATE see here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172962#c39 the new problem is know (first two paragraphs), alos the bug there isn't talking aboput ome apps. Also notice that the bug there is marked as blocking 1.0+, so it will probably get fixed in the next release (it will fix this behavior). Any objections?
Comment 6•20 years ago
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Hm. I just upgraded to 0.9.1 and now it DOSEN'T make a new tab for external links... and I'd rather it did. My old .8 setup with Tabbrowser Extensions opened new tabs for external links, but slowed the browser to a crawl.
Comment 7•20 years ago
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I hope this is the right bug report for the problem I have... Ever since upgrading from .8 to .9 -- and now .9.2 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2) -- whenever I click on a link in my email program a *new* copy of Firefox is loaded with that URL. Previously, the tab that had the focus of the already-running copy of the browser is where the URL was sent. Was that a configuration change, or is it part of this problem too?
Comment 8•20 years ago
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*it's* a duplicate *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 172962 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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