270714 - Option for double-clicking firefox.exe shortcut to open new tab

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Justin Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When I double click firefox.exe or corresponding shortcuts, it should open a new
tab instead of opening a new window.  This would be good to open a new tab
because I forget that I already have a window open and it opens a new window, it
would minimize space in taskbar and also, it would be faster.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Double click firefox.exe or corresponding shortcut.

Actual Results:  
opens a new window

Expected Results:  
open a new tab in current window

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think you can get the behavior you want in 1.0 using the "Open Links from
other applications in..." pref and adding the URL of your homepage to the shortcut.

Comment 2

[Justin Davis]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I think you can get the behavior you want in 1.0 using the "Open Links from
> other applications in..." pref and adding the URL of your homepage to the
shortcut.

this did not work, i have tried several ways and no luck

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

You wouldn't be able to open a second window via that method.
This is like the way MS fakes tabs with Office apps.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change