264288 - Links from other applications don't launch Firefox when it is not already running

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Hessman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.10

When Firefox is set as the default browser on Mac OS X (10.3.5), clicking on a
link in an application (such as Thunderbird) does not launch Firefox and open
the URL.  Instead, seemingly nothing happens.  No browser window opens, and the
dock icon never bounces.  However, if Firefox is already running, the URL will
open in a new Firefox window or tab, depending on the preference (in my case,
the preference is set to open a new tab).

It is possible that this is a regression from bug 172962, which added the
preferences on how to handle links launched from external applications.  The
Mac-specific version of this patch was checked in within the last two days.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure that there are no Firefox windows open, and that Firefox is not
running.
2. Set Firefox as the default browser (in 10.3, through Safari), by explicitly
selecting the Firefox application from the Applications folder.
3. Click on a hyperlink in a program such as Thunderbird.
Actual Results:  
Nothing happened...the dock icon never bounced to indicate that Firefox was
starting, and no Firefox window appeared.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have launched, and a new window should have appeared with the
contents of the URL that was clicked in the external program.

Comment 1

[Tom Hessman]

This no longer occurs with the branch build from 2004-10-21.  Resolving as WFM.