1211989 - OSX: Open link from external application opens second windows

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Description

[Herr Becker]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20150929144111

Steps to reproduce:

Clicking a link within Mail


Actual results:

Firefox opens with 2 windows. The window in front is empty, the window with the clicked URL opens in the background.



Expected results:

Only one window opens, with the URL which was shown in Mail.

Firefox 40.x did not show this behaviour.

Comment 1

[Herr Becker]

still persistent in 42.x branch

Comment 2

[Herr Becker]

still persistent in 42.x branch, but behaviour has changed: the second window now appears in the background.

Comment 3

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

I can confirm this on mac. This may be a dupe of another bug, but terms like "links, open, window" are very common in bugzilla.mozilla.org.

I'll try track down where the regression happened between 40 and 41.

More info: This happens when opening a link from any third party app.

Comment 4

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

The first nightly with this bug is February 24, 2015.
bad Version     39.0a1, Build ID     20150224030228
http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2015/02/2015-02-24-03-02-28-mozilla-central/firefox-39.0a1.en-US.mac.dmg

The last nightly withOUT this bug is February 23, 2015.
Version     38.0a1, Build ID     20150223030231
http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2015/02/2015-02-23-03-02-31-mozilla-central/firefox-38.0a1.en-US.mac.dmg

Comment 5

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Also note: I'm testing on Mac OS 10.11.3.

Comment 6

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

I'm not seeing this anymore. Can anyone else confirm?

Comment 7

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

No replies to comment 6, so I'm marking this as fixed.