Closed Bug 236348 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Cannot stop external links replacing open page

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Settings UI
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 75138

People

(Reporter: ollittm, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

(Keywords: regression, Whiteboard: DUPEME)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2004-03-02-08-trunk/FirefoxSetup.exe 02/March build does not honor the advanced.system.supportDDEExec preference, which lets you force firefox to open new window (or tab) for external links. 0.8 milestone has no problems. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Click on a link from messenger, irc, whatever Actual Results: Active tab in firefox is replaced with whatever the link was Expected Results: Open a new window or tab for the link
Also confirming with XP, but only sometimes.
Keywords: regression
this was already reported.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Maybe I'm dumb, but I can't find the previous bug?
There is a Mozilla Suite bug for this, bug 192286, dont know if that is the one that Mike Connor meant.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75138 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → preferences
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