176195 - With home page group set, hitting Home creates a duplicate set of tabs.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Gary Owen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

I've set up five pages to load on startup as a tabbed home page group. If I hit
the Home button I get a second set of tabs. Hit it again for a third set, making
15 tabbed windows.
I would prefer that if a tabbed window already exists a new one is not created.
This behavior also exists for Bookmark groups.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a home page group
2. Hit Home button
3. Hit Home button

Actual Results:  
You get three lots of the same 5 tabs.

Expected Results:  
Only create a new tabbed window if it does not already exist, or revert any
changed windows back to their original URL's.

Comment 1

[Andreas Kunz]

It was long ago decided to open groups of tabs in new tabs to prevent existing
tabs from being lost.
Maybe someone wants to keep the contents of his old home tabs and compare them
to changed versions of the pages in the new tabs?
You should press the home button when you want to open your home tabs. I think
that's simple. As simple as you only should exit your browser if you really want
to leave it.

And: I do not see that "This behavior also exists for Bookmark groups". All
bookmarked tabs open as new tabs, even if they are already open.

Comment 2

[Gary Owen]

As it's a feature rather than a bug, I'm happy to close this issue.

Comment 3

[Chris Lyon]

see bug 134800

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 182194 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***