145822 - CTRL-N (new window) does not in work ChatZilla

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Lorenzo Colitti]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020520
BuildID:    2002052009

In ChatZilla, hitting CTRL-N will not open a new browser window. This works in
any other Mozilla window, so it should work in ChatZilla too.

It's annoying when somebody on IRC posts a link and you can't open it because
you have closed all the browser windows.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open ChatZilla
2. Press CTRL-N to open a new browser window


Actual Results:  No new browser window appears.

Expected Results:  A new browser window, please!

The workaround, of course, is CTRL-1. But CTRL-1 doesn't open a new browser
window if there is already one open.

Comment 1

[Samuel Sieb]

You could also just click on the link and mozilla will open a new window (if you
have no windows open).  But I agree ^N would be useful.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sieb]

*** Bug 148752 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Lorenzo Colitti]

Yes, the problem is if you have one or more windows open.

In that case, CTRL-1 won't open a new window, and single click will replace the
content of one of your windows with the link you just clicked, which is not what
you want.

Comment 4

[James Ross]

Current versions of ChatZilla let you configure normal-click (and other) link
actions, so you can make them all open in a new tab/window if you like.

Is this still needed/wanted? I guess it would more use on Firefox, actually, as
there's no standard way to open a browser window /without/ using a link.

Comment 5

[James Ross]

Bug 76175 is going to (probably) make Ctrl-N open a new ChatZilla window, so
this bug is WONTFIX.