210386 - Clicking on home opens new tabs when they already exist for a particular group

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 188329

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Eliot Lear]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

When one clicks on "Home" 2 or more times one will get that many tabs of the
Home group.  This occurs regardless of whether the group exists or not.  This
seems to me a design error, but perhaps I am doing something wrong?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a home group of tabs
2. close all tabs
3. Click home
4. click home again
5. Repeat until one's heart's content

Actual Results:  
You get as many groups of tabs as you clicked home.

Expected Results:  
There are NNNN valid approaches to repair this:

1.  Close all tabs and open only those in the home tab group.  The problem with
this approach is that it is destructive (which is why I suspect the function
works the way it does).

2.  Check the URL of each opened tab; create a tab for any URL not currently
presented; and reorder the tabs so that the home group is left or top justified.
This preserves other opened tabs, without opening duplicate tabs, thus adhering
to the principle of least astonishment.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188329 ***