317778 - With tabbed browsing switched off, when i click on a link in outlook express or 2003 it will open in a tab instead of using currently open browser

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Pete]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

With tabbed browsing switched off, when i click on a link in outlook express or 2003 it will open in a tab instead of using currently open browser and just changing the website like it used to do on firefox 1.1. Not something that bothers me but thought i better report it as a bug :)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take off tabbed browsing.
2.Have an open firefox window on any website
3. Click on a link from outlook
4.go back to the firefox window and it will have opened in a new tab

Actual Results:  
It will open in a tab

Expected Results:  
navigate away from page currently on to the link clicked.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051124 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005112403

Have you chosen in Options > Tabs: Open links from other applications in: a new window?
Had only Thunderbird to try and this works fine. 

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

What does "tabbed browsing switched off" mean? You can control how external links are handled with the way Ria described.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM, opens in new window
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008020404 Minefield/3.0b3pre