272842 - Help uses already open browser

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Zimmelman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; MyIE2; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

Anytime Thunderbird needs to display an HTML page, it uses any occurrence of 
an open browser.  This is a pain, especially when it changes a page a user 
wants to reference.  It should open a NEW browser occurrence, not reuse 
existing.  Or at the very least, it should be an option.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an html page using a browser.
2. Start T-Bird and click the dotted circle at the right-hand corner

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, what browser are you using ? I'm using Firefox 1.0, and this opens a
new tab or a new window, depending on your preference (see Options -> Advanced
-> Tabbed Browsing).

It has nothing to do with Thunderbird though, it's a function of the browser.

Comment 2

[Thomas Bertels]

Should be marked as invalid.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.