Closed Bug 244875 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Open in Tab closes extra tabs.

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

defect
Not set
critical

Tracking

()

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: kevinar18, Assigned: bugs)

Details

(Keywords: dataloss)

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040527 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040527 Firefox/0.8.0+

"Open in Tab" closes extra tabs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up 4 pages in 4 different tabs (and visit any sites that you want).
2. You now have 4 tabs open.
3. In your bookmarks find a folder with two URLs.  Click "Open in New Tabs"
Actual Results:  
The last 2 tabs are closed, and the links open in the first two tabs.

Expected Results:  
The other tabs should not have been closed.
Keywords: dataloss

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 244871 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
This bug is different than Bug 244871.  This issue actually causes dataloss by
closing sites that you once had open.

Is "Open in Tabs" really meant to wipe clean the user's browsing session,
creating dataloss and closing windows without warning?
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Confirming on trunk. Can anyone confirm if this also occurs on
AVIARY_1_0_20040515_BRANCH ?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
This is in Aviary and 0.8, it's not a regression, see:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/browser/components/bookmarks/content/bookmarks.js#631
Yes, open in tabs in the default setting is expected to open that group of
links, replacing all of the open tabs, regardless of whether its 2 or 20.  There
is a bug to make tab groups back of the history stack so that you can hit back
and restore the previous group of tabs.

if you want to argue the default behaviour, there's another bug on that issue
(append vs. replace) but I doubt you'll win on that.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
This happens even if browser.tabs.loadFolderAndReplace is false. Shouldn't it
not close extra tabs when this pref is set to false?
QA Contact: tabbed.browser
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