Closed Bug 268029 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Clicking on a URL in Thunderbird clobbers existing Firefox window

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: jwkenne, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

In 0.7, clicking on a URL in Thunderbird opened a new Firefox window. Good.
In 0.8, clicking on a URL in Thunderbird brought an existing Firefox window to
the front, and then opened a new Firefox window. Ugly.
In 0.9, clicking on a URL in Thunderbird clobbers an existing Firefox window. Bad.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox.
2. Start Thunderbird
3. Go to a piece of mail or news with a URL
4. Click on the URL
Actual Results:  
An existing Firefox window is brought to the front and clobbered. At best, a
nuisance. At worst, a show-stopper.

Expected Results:  
Opened a new Firefox window.

At present, I am using Firefox 1.0RC2.
No Thunderbird problem. Symptoms were the result of a default setting in Firefox
changed by reinstall.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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