1455251 - When you have several browser windows with different profiles the focused one must manage links

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P5)

Description

[Óscar García Amor]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.117 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox with default profile and ser it as default browser.
2. Go to about:profiles, create new profile and open it in a new window (or open a new window whit an existic one). Don't close default profile window.
3. With the new window focused, open a http/https link from any other application (for example a console or from Thunderbird).


Actual results:

The link is opened in the default profile window.


Expected results:

The link must be opened in the focused window, not in the default one.

Comment 1

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Hello, I tested this issue on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 , using Firefox 59.0.2 as well as Nightly 61.0a1 (2018-04-24) and this issue does occur only on Linux, on Windows the Links will open in the focused window but on Linux the links always open in the background on the Default profile window.

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552613

Comment 3

[Óscar García Amor]

I can't add any more tracking flags, but simply indicate that this bug affects all versions from 70 onwards and that it is still present today. I understand that there must be some solution because Chromium is able to handle perfectly the opening of links in the focused window.