153533 - open link vs. open link in new window - mirc

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[MX]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020621
BuildID:    2002062109

this *might* be mirc problem, but it works with IE correctly. mIRC, someone
types a url, you right click on it, and have the option of either  opening in a
new browser, or use the one thats always open. With IE this works correctly, but
with mozilla (all builds so far i guess) the browser ALWAYS opens a new window.
It gets cumbersome to have a new window open when you can just reuse the other one.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run mirc and type in/have someone type a url
2. right click on url
3. choose "open" and it opens a new browser, fine.
4. choose "open" again, and instead of reusing the previous browser, it opens
yet a new one. Again, this behavior does not exist in I.E. or opera if i
remember correctly.

Actual Results:  browsers keep opening a new window.

Expected Results:  browser should reuse (if any) previously opened windows

Note on the status of this bug... i chose "Minor" because it is, but a little note:
Minor: well, its a minor loss of function, but i dont think there is a work around.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

IMO, this should be a Mozilla pref (bug 75138), not an mIRC pref.  IE already
has this pref and I don't know why mIRC copies it.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is not a question of prefs.  It is a context menu option.  Do you know if
mIRC uses DDE to open the URL?  and if so, what DDE commands does it issue
differently?  I couldn't find any documentation in MSDN about this issue to
determine if there is an accepted standard for external applications to "Open in
New Window"

Component->XP Apps: GUI Features; dependent on 75138

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning obsolete bugs to their respective Seamonkey owners (i.e. nobody). 
If you want this fixed for Firefox, change the Product and Component accordingly
and reassign back to me.

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".