284087 - Last active FF window pops up before new FF window is opened on external links.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 255123

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Silo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0

When opening a link from a mail client (Thunderbird, Outlook) or from an
application or even windows desktop Firefox will always pop up the last active
browser window before it opens a new browser window with the target URL. This is
annoying because it confuses you if you want to quickly skip back to the
application by Alt+Tab as you will jump to the previously active browser window
instead and of course it also it slows down performance.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a Firefox window. Make sure tabbed browsing options are set to open
links from external application in new window.
2. Open e-mail or any other application or go to windows desktop and open an
internet link form there.


Actual Results:  
You will first see the previously opened window (from step 1) poping up before a
new window will be opened with your target URL (form step 2).

Expected Results:  
A new window should be opened directly, without any previous active browser
window poping up.

Comment 1

[Dan M]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255123 ***