188179 - By default, URLs invoked from outside the browser open in currently selected browser window/tab; should be a new window or tab if tabs in use

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 172962

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Roger Hughes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

With Phoenisx as the default browser, invoking a URL from another application
opens that page in the last used browser window or tab; it should, at least by
default, open in a new tab. (This is a particular pain when the last window used
was a popup with no toolbars).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page like http://go.icq.com (which opens a Java ICQ client in a small
popup window)
2. Switch to your mail client and cick on a clickable URL
3. Watch page load into suddenly awkward 150 pixel-wide window, and try to get
the Java applet back without crashing it ...

Actual Results:  
(as described)

Expected Results:  
Opened a new browser window or tab if there is a tabbed browser window open and
loaded page into that.

Comment 1

[David P James]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 172962 ***

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.