264778 - "new window" always opens the defined homepage first but should only use current URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187573

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[u162702]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Behaviour of "new window" is different to IE.
In Firefox "new window" always loads the defined homepage first only then loads
the current URL. This leading to error 'time out' in case the homepage is a
corporate intranet page not accessible from the internet and user is only
conected to internet at this time.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set tools/options/general/homepage to a page not accessible from internet
2. surf to site accessible from internet
3. select file/new window 
=> will give error

Actual Results:  
error: The requested URL could not be retrieved

Expected Results:  
create a new browser with content from URL that was active at time of step 3.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Why is this entered as a Thunderbird bug?

Comment 2

[Gary van der Merwe]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187573 ***