222769 - "Open in Tabs" feature of bookmarks 'closes' existing tabs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[tom wells]

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

If I have several tabs open and use the "open in tabs" feature in the bookmarks
- it closes the existing tabbed windows and opens the bookmarked tabs. It should
really append to the existing tabs. 

Of course you can get round it by opening a new window!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open > 1 tabs 
2. go to the bookmarks menu item 
3. right click on bookmarks menu item and open in tabs


Actual Results:  
existing tabs close, bookmarked tabs open

Expected Results:  
append to existing open tabs

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This is by design.  To change the behavior, set the preference in Edit -
Preferences - Navigator - Tabbed Browsing - When opening a bookmark group.

Comment 2

[Tom Metro]

Should be marked as a dup of bug 259865