281940 - External app links hijack last opened child windows (by hidden tab)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 243893

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Ken Johanson]

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

Clicking a link on an external app causes it to be loaded into a new tab *in the
last opened window*, which if it does not contain the nav/url/tab bar, the new
becomes hidden. 

This has the BAD effect of making end users think they've lost the form data in
the child window, because they cant see that a tab was in fact created, .

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://www.breezeway.tv
2. click 'my profile'
3. in external app (ala Thunderbird), click a link
4. the form is now missing, replaced by the link contents

Actual Results:  
This BREAKS web applications severely, and is a possible security issue (hidden
/ unintended page loads (logins, etc) from the user), marking 'major'.

Expected Results:  
External apps should ALWAYS open new tabs in the root window, or, the child
window should display the tabs.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Dupe of bug 243893 per bug 268928 comment 2.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243893 ***