214501 - No option to prevent Firebird from reusing existing windows versus opening new windows

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 172962

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Marshall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

If I have an existing Firebird window open, let's say to http://www.mozilla.org,
and I'm reading my email, and someone sends me a link to
http://www.slashdot.org, when I click on the link, Firebird pops up and reuses
the already existing window instead of opening a new browser window with the new
link. This could be a problem in cases where I was filling in a form at the
first URL, and I was trying to look up information at a second different URL.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open, by any means, a browser window to any URL (URL-A).
2. From the address toolbar in Windows2000, type a new URL (URL-B) and press
enter. Alternatively, click on any link in another application, such as email or
a word processing document.
3. The existing Firebird window will popup and replace URL-A with URL-B instead
of opening a new window.

Actual Results:  
The URL that I was browsing was replaced with the contents of the new URL.

Expected Results:  
It should have opened a new window so that I could browse URL-A and URL-B side
by side and not lose my work in URL-A.

Internet Explorer implements this feature by having a checkbox in it's Advanced
Preferences called "Reuse Windows for Launching Shortcuts". If this box is OFF,
then the desired behavior is exhibited.

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Confirming RFE on 20030729 W2K build.

Comment 2

[Pham]

:)

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

Comment 3

[Michael Lefevre]

verified dupe

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change