Closed Bug 290966 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

ctrl+n should open a duplicated instance of an existing window

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18808

People

(Reporter: dcolic, Assigned: aaronlev)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

ctrl+n opens a new instance of firefox and all properties of the parent firefox
are lost.... navigation history and so on.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ctrl+n

Actual Results:  
a new instance of firefox opens up with no recollection of the parent navigation
history for the existing browsing session.

Expected Results:  
a new instance of firefox should open with the same navigation properties of the
parent firefox app so that you could use the back button on a newly opened instance.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18808 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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