170254 - When opening web pages from explorer or links from AIM, open windows are recycled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 155402

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrew Rondeau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

When I upgraded from Mozilla 1 to 1.1, a REAL ANNOYING CHANGE was created that I
cannot turn off.  If I click on a link in AIM or launch a web page from
explorer, the window/tab that is currently active is recycled to the new page. 
This is quite annoying when I want to open multiple pages, or when a friend
sends me a link and I don't want to leave my current page.

Why don't you allow me to turn this off?  (IE lets me turn it off.  Com'on, I
know you guys can do better then IE!)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open an interesting page, like slashdot
2.Click on a link that your buddy just IMed you, or start a web site by typing
its URL into explorer
3.Notice that instead of opening a new window, Mozilla recycles the old one,
interrupting your slashdot experience

Actual Results:  
see #3

Expected Results:  
Opened a new window for the new page

This is an interface issue...  It's probably an easy fix, but it's annoying
enough to make me want to get another browser.

Comment 1

[Dan Mellem]

Confirming for this build (on W2k). I haven't tried 1.0 but seem to remember
links opening in a new window.

Comment 2

[Torben]

See duplicate for workaround.

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