Closed Bug 1646156 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

A PDF file opened from the download list overwrites the current active tab

Categories

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Downloads Panel
Version:
78 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1642431

People

(Reporter: klint, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

  • In the options, set the PDF files to open in Firefox
  • Download a sample PDF file and make sure it appears in the download list under the Downloads button.
  • Open a web page in the browser
  • Click on the Downloads button, and open the downloaded PDF from there

Actual results:

the current tab with the web page is overwritten by the PDF content

Expected results:

A new tab should have opened and the PDF content should have been displayed there, by preserving the tab and the web page that was diplayed.

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Component: Untriaged → Downloads Panel
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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