228690 - Multiple tabs open when a pipe delimited querystring is opened via other software (mail, word, im, etc)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221445

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rob Cook]

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

When clicking on a link from other software such as an email client, or instant
messaging multiple tabs open if there are pipes in the querystring.

For example:

http://www.yahoo.com?b=1|2|3|4|5

If clicked on from Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail, or an instant
message will open firebird with five tabs.  The first tab will have the
http://www.yahoo.com?b=1 url.  The second tab will do some sort of background
search and redirect to a different url.  The third tab will go to another url,
etc for the five tabs.

If I type the above url directly into the location bar the described behavior
does not happen.  The url opens as typed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Firebird as your default browser.
2. Send yourself an email with the url http://www.yahoo.com?b=1|2|3|4|5
3. Click on the link when you receive the email.
4. Firebird will open with five tabs.  First tab has http://www.yahoo.com?b=1,
second tab does some sort of lookup for "2", third tab does lookup for "3" etc.

Actual Results:  
Firebird opens with five tabs.

Expected Results:  
I would expect a single tab to be opened to the url I clicked on.  This is the
behavior on Mozilla 1.5.

I have not implemented any kind of skin etc.  A co-worked installed a fresh
version of Firebird (never been installed before) and had the same behavior.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

known, unfortunately

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221445 ***