2031652 - Using the New Window option (right click on menu bar) does not open a new window

Status: NEW

(Firefox Enterprise :: Client, defect)

Description

[lburuian]

Attachment: Screencast from 2026-04-14 15-28-04.webm

Found in

• 149.2.0 (20260409194738)

Affected environment

• Staging

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: Ubuntu
• Unaffected platforms: Windows, MacOS

Preconditions

• Have Firefox Enterprise installed on open the machine.

Steps to reproduce

1. Right click on the FxE icon in the menu bar
2. Click on "New Window"

Expected result

• A new FxE Windows opens up.

Actual result

• No new FxE window is opened.
• See video

Additional notes

• Using the Menu bar or the Hamburger menu option works as expected.

Comment 1

[:gerard-majax]

Luminita, can you confirm that New private window works? From reading the code https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/rev/33682acc1fa0db34ac826b143048db28ee9f16a6/widget/gtk/DBusService.cpp#163-164 it should and I think it does not work on New window because this passes no CLI arg so we default to felt ...

Comment 2

[lburuian]

Hello Alexandre,
Yes, New Private Window works as expected. Tried again right now on build 150.0 (20260419183446).
As a note: Open Profile Manager also does not do anything. I am wondering if that one should even be there at all.
Thank you.

Comment 3

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/enterprise-firefox] Bug 2031652 - Enterprise: add new-window when dealing with dbus remote client (#796)