263792 - New Tab Menu Should Load New Tab in New Window if No Window is Currently Open

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Russ]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.9
Build Identifier: 

Clicking on New Tab File Menu option has no effect if no window is currently open.  In Safari, this opens 
a new tab in a new window.  I would expect this behavior or expect the New Tab Menu option be 
disabled of no window exists (less preferable).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close all FireFox windows
2. Select File > New Tab
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
New Tab should open containing new Tab (note this is not the same as a New Window opening, since 
the default page will not open inside a tab, but will inside a new window).

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Pretty big usability issue. Asking for mac1.0 blocking status.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** Bug 273989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Frankie]

Contrast with bug 147237 which would disable New Tab when no windows are open.

IMO, opening a window is better.

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 274119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Mike Calmus]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Contrast with bug 147237 which would disable New Tab when no windows are open.
> 
> IMO, opening a window is better.

The premise of Bug #147237 sems to be in use in FF 1.5. Should this bug therefore be closed?

Comment 6

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

This appears to be fixed in latest Nightly on OSX.