270218 - firefox -remote openURL(URL,new-tab) no longer opens new tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mikael Nilsson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-2)

I've used the following command to launch firefox from my mail reader:

firefox -remote "openURL($1,new-tab)"

Now, with firefox 1.0, this no longer opens the link a new tab. The exact same
command without "new-tab" works fine (but also does not open a new tab). 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefix, open slashdot.org
2. run firefox -remote "openURL(http://www.mozilla.org,new-tab)"


Actual Results:  
The slashdot page is replaced with mozilla.org.

Expected Results:  
A new tab should have been opened with www.mozilla.org

Comment 1

[Mikael Nilsson]

After a bit more research, it seems this is a problem with tabextensions. With a
pristine download from mozilla.org without extensions etc, it works...

Now off to bug the tabextensions people...

/Mikael