266248 - open pop-up as a new tab but in a correctly sized window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270376

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Bruno Pouyenne]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041025 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041025 Firefox/1.0

The problem is that pop-up window goal is to display the text in a window with a
specific dimension. 
When opening pop-up in a new tab it takes the entire screen. That may cause
incorrect display and hide the other tab. 
A good solution would be to open in a new windows but adding a button on the tab
bar, not on the task bar of the OS. 
When the tab-button corresponding to the pop-up is activated, the pop-up is
displayed else it's hidded.
I made a fake screenshot at http://spaceman.23.free.fr/poptab.png

I think a option in the tabbed broswing preferences would be interresting.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
open a pop-up in a new tab

Actual Results:  
the pop-up is displayed as a normal page

Expected Results:  
open the pop-up in a window but with a button on the tab-bar(not on the OS)

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Bruno Pouyenne]

This feature is still missing. Opera browser handle pop-ups this way by 
default. 
It allows to use single window browsing cleanly.

Comment 3

[Rubén Martín [:Nukeador] ❌ [away till Aug 31st]]

It is Assigned To: Ben Goodger

Ben, is posible to do?

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270376 ***

Comment 5

[Bruno Pouyenne]

I don't understand why setting this bug duplicate of a bug related to window splitting.
This bug is about pop-up window display in tab-browsing.