285919 - window splits when I click on Bookmark Toolbar icon

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Dennis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

When I click on an icon on the bookmark toolbar, the open window splits and the
new site appears as a small portion of the existing window.  How do I get these
icons to open in a new window instead?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on icon on bookmark toolbar
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Desired URL window opens as a samll panel on left side of existing window.  I
need to double click on it to appear in larger window on right side.  I then
have to close the small panel on the right.


Expected Results:  
In Explorer when you click on a toolbar favorite it open either in a new window
in one step.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change