185743 - RFE: Single Window Mode

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 103843

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[alanjstr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021211 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021211 Phoenix/0.5

Some browsers, such as Opera, offer a Single Window Mode - the ability to keep
all new 'windows' in a single browser window by forcing them to become tabs instead.

Although this has already been an extension (
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en ), I think that it
would be better to have it natively supported.  

There are two scenarios:  
1. you get a link in an outside program and want it to open in your current 
session, but not override the current tab (combined with
user_pref("advanced.system.supportDDEExec", false); )
3. you want a new window link in your current session to open inside your
session instead of a new window (target="_new" or "_blank")


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Opens a new window

Expected Results:  
Opens a new tab

Comment 1

[flii (cj)]

lol.  seeing as how you stole my exact words and just added a bit to them, i do
believe i agree with what "you" say, and i put in my support for this
feature/option.  no wonder you asked me about it.  :)~

i've grown very fond of tabs and only want new windows to open when *i* want new
windows to open.  to me, it makes sense for a tab-using browser to allow its
users to use tabs all the time.  :)  i know i would.

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Your #2(3?) already exists.  user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window", true);
 Are you proposing that windows created with window.open() also become new tabs?
 If all you want is the first behavior, then this is INVALID.  If you want the
second, I suspicion this will be WONTFIXed.

Comment 3

[alanjstr]

Does browser.block.target_new_window force it to be a new tab or make it reuse
the current tab?  

Yes, this is a request for an enhancement to enable window.open() to open a new
tab instead of a new window.  

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

Don't you think bug 105547 or bug 78037 or one of several other new window bugs
already cover this? How is this different from the others?

Comment 5

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103843 ***

Comment 6

[Felix Miata]

v dupe