182339 - External link while tabbed browsing should open new tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 75138

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[James Helferty]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021127
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021127

If I have tabbed browsing enabled, and Mozilla is my default client, then if I
am using an application which tells my system to load a URL (say any app that
has convenience links for tighter web integration, like, say, livejournal),
Mozilla should open a new tab in the last-accessed Navigator window, rather than
opening the webpage link over my currently openned webpage.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click any link in any app that uses the default browser to open a webpage.
Actual Results:  
It opens the page over the one I have currently loaded.

Expected Results:  
Depending on a preference setting, Mozilla should do one of the following:
a) Opened a new tab in the last-accessed Navigator browser, and loaded the page
b) Open a new Navigator browser window and loaded the page there
c) Open over the current document.

Comment 1

[MAX]

I have outlook express as default mail client
and mozilla as default browser.
Before click on links in messages
i need open new blank tab if i don't want lose open tabs
this is very annoying!

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

->Tabbed Browser

Comment 3

[Travis Chase]

Sorta the same problem happens in BeOS, Mozilla will only open a link from an
external URL if Mozilla is not open, if there is a window open, Mozilla will not
do anything.

Comment 4

[Jason Bassford]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75138 ***