222547 - Need a pref to avoid reuse of browser windows

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 172962

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Ed Hume]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

In order to prevent an external app from stealing a current browser window, we
have to put

user_pref("advanced.system.supportDDEExec", false); 

in a user.js file or similar. 

There really ought to be a simple checkbox in prefs somewhere.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Pham]

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

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified dupe.

Comment 3

[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