256720 - opening a link from an external source open in a new window, not a new tab.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 172962

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Bo Roop]

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

I use a tool called WinKey by Copernic and can launch applications or HTML links
from this tool. In the other tabbed browsers I have used (www.crazybrowser.com),
the new web page is opened in a new tab, not a new window.

In Firefox the link is opened in a new Firefow window, not a new tab.

WinKey can be downloaded from http://www.copernic.com/winkey

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox and have a page loaded
2. Use the WinKey app to launch a new web site


Actual Results:  
A new window of Firefox opens.

Expected Results:  
A new tab should open within Firefox.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 172962 ***