264553 - regression - most recently use browser window gets focus before spawning new window when URL's are clicked in other applications

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Marc Bejarano]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

this behavior is new with firefox 0.10 (first release of 1.0PR).  0.9.3 behaved
as expected.  the default behavior of firefox is to open a new window when a URL
that firefox handles is clicked in another application.  the way this used to
work is that a new firefox window would be opened with the clicked URL.  now,
the most recently used firefox window gets the focus and then it spawns a new
window which then takes over the focus.  what this means is that when you close
the new window, the old firefox window has the focus instead of the application
from with the link was clicked.  this is counterintuitive.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041015
Firefox/0.10

Options->advanced-->tabbed browsing->
Open links from other applicationin:
select: new window

->WFM