282045 - clicking on a link in another application while doing "print preview" in firefox leads mixed "print preview with tabs" state

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 177491

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

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clicking on a link in another application while doing "print preview" in firefox
leads mixed "print preview with tabs" state.

important note:  for my "tabbed browsing" pref I am using "Open links from other
application in a new tab in the most recent window"

I'm using "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0"

to reproduce this bug:

1) start firefox, go to any page (http://www.google.com)
2) do print preview
3) go to another application (like tbird) and click on a link (say
http://www.mozilla.org)
4) since my pref is set to "Open links from other application in a new tab in
the most recent window", it opens up a new tab in firefox that was in print
preview mode.

this leaves me in a state where I see the print preview toolbar, yet I have tabs.

to close the print preview toolbar, I have to click to the "www.google.com" tab
and hit the close button.  the close button doesn't work from the
"www.mozilla.org" tab.

I'll attach a screen shot.

Comment 1

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> to close the print preview toolbar, I have to click to the "www.google.com" tab
> and hit the close button.  the close button doesn't work from the
> "www.mozilla.org" tab.

actually, if I hit the print preview close button while the www.mozilla.org tab
in front-most, the www.google.com tab will close, leaving me with
www.mozilla.org and the print preview bar.  (and hitting close again will not
close it)

if I switch the to google tab before hitting the print preview close button,
hitting the print preview close button will close the print preview bar but also
close the www.mozilla.org tab

Comment 2

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Attachment: screen shot of tabs and print preview bar

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 285205 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

This is reproduced with trunk. and reproduced on Linux.

Comment 5

[Ronald W. Heiby]

I find that Firefox enters this bizarre quasi-preview / quasi-tabbed state when
I do pretty much *any* navigation when in Print Preview. For example, if I click
on a link on the previewed page or press Alt-LeftArrow when Firefox is doing a
Print Preview, I pretty much have to exit all the way out of Firefox and start
it again to proceed.

Comment 6

[DunxD]

Aha - I am getting this too.  My preferred action here would be to open a new
Firefox window when the print preview is open - either as the result of opening
a link from an external application or clicking on a link in the previewed document.

Comment 7

[Michael]

I find the same reported functionality on both my Windows XP system and my Linux
FC4 systems.
  
Additionally if the [F5] refresh key is hit during a print preview the undesired
functionality will occur.

From my Win system:
Mozilla/5.0 
Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8
Gecko/20050511 
Firefox/1.0.4

Comment 8

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177491 ***

Comment 9

[Noah Mendelsohn]

I get the exact same problem in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 running on Win2K.  I'm set to open links
from other applications in a new tab.  The new tab opens correctly, but with
print preview chrome from previous tab inactive at the top.  As already reported
here, you can kill the preview by navigating back to the tab that "owned" it. 
I'm not 100% convinced from the descriptions that this is indeed a dup of
177491, but I'm just a Firefox user and don't feel completely competent to make
the call, so I'm not formally asking to reopen.