262409 - Wanted: Clicking a link in another program opens new Firefox tab, not window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 172962

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Henrik Ræder Clausen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

When I click a link in some other application (like OpenOffice.org or anything
else), Firefox opens a new window with the link. That creates the kind of
clutter that browser tabs is meant to prevent. I would prefer, possibly as an
option, to have a new tab rather than a new window.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a link in some other Windows application while Firefox is open.

Actual Results:  
Firefox opens a new window. There's no option to change that behaviour.


Expected Results:  
Create a new tab. I get a ton of Firefox icons in the process bar, I would
prefer to have just one window and a bunch of tabs in there.

Opera has this right.

Comment 1

[Ross Shannon]

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