254324 - with firefox as default browser, clicking link in any other application opens multiple firefox incidences and one msie instance

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 246078

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mblatt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

Firefox is default browser in win XP pro. When I click any url link in any
application (email or anything else), two firefox instances open, both to the
clicked link. In addition, an msie instance opens in a third window to the msie
start page.

The firefox instances are independent of each other once open. Clicking links
within each open firefox window SOMETIMES acts as expected (the clicked link
opens in the browser window). However, at other times, the link will open in
msie or else a new empty msie instance will open in front of the firefox window
in which the link was clicked.

when msie is default, clicked links open as expected.

This has persisted through several firefox builds and is a problem on several
different computers with different motherboards and processors.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.click a link in any application
2.multiple browsers open as noted above
3.etc

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
clicked link opens in one firefox instance every time, both from with firefox
and from other applications.

about:buildconfig

 

Build platform


  
    
      target
    

    
      i686-pc-cygwin
    

  

 

Build tools


  
    
      Compiler
      	Version
      	Compiler flags
    

    
      $(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl
      	12.00.8804
      	-TC -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE)
    

    
      $(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl
      	12.00.8804
      	-TP -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE) 
    

  

 

Configure arguments

 --disable-ldap --disable-mailnews
--enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,typeaheadfind,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth
--enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile
--disable-profilesharing --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests
--enable-static --disable-shared --enable-official-branding

Comment 1

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

You're suffering from bad Registry entries.  Fixed in nightlies (will be fixed
for 1.0PR and later), workaround in comment 139 of the bug I'm duping to.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246078 ***

Comment 2

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You're suffering from bad Registry entries.  Fixed in nightlies (will be fixed
> for 1.0PR and later), workaround in comment 139 of the bug I'm duping to.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246078 ***

The patch didn't work for me. See comment 201 on that bug.

Either way, go to that bug and let them know if the patch worked or not, and if
not demand they reopen the bug.