160645 - Mozilla's HTTP URL integration with Windows just got worse!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 155402

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[manojd]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
BuildID:    2002072104

I just upgraded my Mozilla/1.1 Alpha to Mozilla/1.1 Beta, & find a very annoying
behavior change.

I have a mail open in MS Outlook. It actually is a newsletter containing many
links. I normally click interesting links as I read the newsletter, delete the
mail, & go on clearing remaining mails. I will read the opened links later in
the day - clearing mail, normal office work, & reading newsletter articles each
have different priorities, & will be handled at different times during the day.

All Mozilla releases before 1.1 Beta used to open each link in a separate
window. This meant I could safely click a link in Outlook, minimize the
resulting Mozilla window, & go on with my normal work - sure that Mozilla would
have this article ready when I am ready to read it. I think this is also the
normal IE behavior.

Now Mozilla has "regressed" to Netscape 4.x behavior - clicking a link opens it
in the last opened Mozilla window! Means if I click 3 links one after the other,
first two links are "lost"!!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See description above.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155402 ***

Comment 2

[Marcus Campbell]

Verified.