193980 - ICQ attempts to open in new browser window fail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Craig]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

If you get a URL via ICQ in a message or chat, you have several options,
including "Open in Current Browser Window" and "Open in New Browser Window". If
IE or NS4.x is your default browser, these work as expected. If Mozilla is your
default browser, both of them do the same thing, opening in current window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get sent a URL in ICQ
2. Right-click/select "Open in New Browser Window"


Actual Results:  
URL is opened in current browser window

Expected Results:  
URL should be opened in new browser window

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

Please try again with a more recent build of Mozilla.

Comment 2

[Craig]

Inevitably, same under
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Comment 3

[Chris Lyon]

What version of ICQ are you using?

Comment 4

[Craig]

2000b Build 3286
It's a feature I've seen on many versions of ICQ, so unless Netscape and IE
wrote a different interface for each one of them, it's fair to conclude that
some common API is involved here, not something specific to this version.

Comment 5

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Reporter: Is this still a problem with a current Mozilla build?

Comment 6

[Craig]

Yes.

I've tried a couple of different machines running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514:

Some always open in current browser window, no matter which choice is made. One
always opens in new browser windows, no matter which choice is made.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 8

[Craig]

Still opens always in current window, as of 1.17.12.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915

Comment 9

[Andrew Schultz]

There is a pref to control this in newer builds of SeaMonkey (the way external
links are handled was rewritten).

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/contrib/latest-mozilla1.8/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/latest-trunk/

If a newer build still doesn't work, please file a new bug.