281531 - Clicking a URL while Sunbird is open but Firefox is not opens a new Sunbird window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 323288

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[nbardhan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

This is a problem of Sunbird "thinking" it's a browser.  If Sunbird is open, but
Firefox is not, when I click a link in an application such as AIM or Eudora,
Firefox doesn't open. Rather, Sunbird opens a new calendar window. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close firefox
2. Start sunbird
3. Click a link in any other application
4. Note that Sunbird becames the application in the forefront and that there is
a new calendar window

Actual Results:  
A new calendar window opens.

Expected Results:  
Sunbird should not have grabbed the URL; Firefox should have.

Comment 1

[Joey Minta]

This looks related to bug 255951 and bug 257088.  However, WORKSFORME on WinXP,
can someone with Mac OS X test and confirm?

Comment 2

[Rafael Rivera]

Can't reproduce on Windows Server 2003 x64 with nightly trunk build 20050814.
Suggest adding helpwanted to whiteboard.

Comment 3

[resimmons]

I have the same problem, although if Sunbird is open but the calendar window is closed, it won't open a new window but just shifts focus to Sunbird.  

Comment 4

[Joey Minta]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I have the same problem, although if Sunbird is open but the calendar window is
> closed, it won't open a new window but just shifts focus to Sunbird.  
> 
What version of Sunbird?

Comment 5

[resimmons]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > I have the same problem, although if Sunbird is open but the calendar window is
> > closed, it won't open a new window but just shifts focus to Sunbird.  
> > 
> What version of Sunbird?
> 

I'm running Mac OS 10.3.9, Firefox 1.5, and Sunbird .3a.  I had these issues with Firefox 1.0.x and Sunbird .2 as well.

Comment 6

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Maybe this is related to Bug 323288? It looks like Firefox and Sunbird use the same kind of identification stuff so that Mac OS can't distinguish between both programs. Maybe a Mac expert can anwser that question.

Comment 7

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 323288 ***

Comment 8

[KDS]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Maybe this is related to Bug 323288? It looks like Firefox and Sunbird use the
> same kind of identification stuff so that Mac OS can't distinguish between both
> programs. Maybe a Mac expert can anwser that question.
> 

The Macintosh uses so-called creator codes which should uniquely identify applications.  Bug 323288 points out that Sunbird unfortunately uses the same code that Firefox has (MOZB).  I proposed using MOZC instead.  In his attachment (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=208398&action=view), Stefan Sitter proposes what looks like an appropriate change in the source code to solve this problem.