1363837 - Search in new tab only if current tab is not new tab page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1455326

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[mario66]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0
Build ID: 20170504112025

Steps to reproduce:

Use case 1:
1. Open a new empty tab
2. Type text in search bar
3. Hit enter (i.e. perform search)

Use case 2:
1. Navigate to a website
2. Type text in search bar
3. Hit enter (i.e. perform search)


Actual results:

Firefox opens a new tab in case 1 and case 2 if the pref "browser.search.openintab" is true.

Firefox does not open a new tab in case 1 and case 2 if the pref "browser.search.openintab" is false.


Expected results:

Add an option such that Firefox opens a new tab in case 1, but *not* in case 2.

Basically, mirror the behavior of the following addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/search-in-new-tab/

The reason why I report this even though there is an addon for this is that your management has decided to set everything on fire and exterminate all user interface related addons soon. Hence, I though you may be interested in providing such a feature out-of-the-box. I think this a very useful feature!

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

From the summary, I think the expected results should be that Firefox opens a new tab in case 2 butnot in case 1.

This was fixed in bug 1455326, hence duping to that bug.