1498093 - Not reusing blank tab when opening a few bookmarks at once

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P5)

Description

[wroot]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open Firefox and have only one blank tab opened. browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs is set to true. Try to open all bookmarks in one folder via Open All in Tabs


Actual results:

Bookmarks are opened in new windows without any of them reusing the blank tab (which works fine when opening just one bookmark).


Expected results:

First (or any) bookmark should reuse the blank tab and then every other bookmark from the list should create new tabs.

Comment 1

[wroot]

It's a very minor issue. Have filed it because someone commented on the other closed bug.

Comment 2

[Leon Wolf]

The problem also exists when the user clicks a link from an external application (such as the mail client) that opens in Firefox. It will open another tab even though there is already an empty, unused tab.

Comment 3

[wroot]

I have noticed this too. But it is not related to bookmarks. So maybe should be filed as a separate bug and linked to this one. Care to file it?

Comment 4

[Leon Wolf]

Filed under: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502836

Comment 5

[wroot]

Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539927 as a similar bug, but with add-ons.

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 54 votes.
:mak, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Comment 7

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.