303807 - Once a windows opens to stream Yahoo media, and if it is the only instance of Firefox running, other instances of Firefox cannot be started by links, and no tabs can be selected.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243893

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Brent Taylor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Firefox, when called upon by an external link to display a streaming media
window, opens that window in small format without any controls allowing user
manipulation.  If the user later closes all other instances of Firefox, and then
clicks on an email or application link that tries to call Firefox, the resulting
pages load in tabs within the tiny media window, and the tabs cannot be
accessed.  When the tiny media window is later closed, Firefox presents the
"open tabs" warnning, but does not afford a way to get to the tabs.  Information
in those tabs is therefore lost when the user is forced to kill Firefox - tabs
and all.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
2. Navigate to the Yahoo live TV link and select it
3. Allow the window to pop up and begin streaming the video
4. Close all other instances of Firefox that may be running, but leave the
streaming media window running
5. Open an email message containing a URL or (if using Bloglines notifier, for
example) click  on URL or Notifier icon
6. Watch Firefox fail to start
7. Try to close Yahoo streaming media
8. Observe "multiple tabs" warning
9. Try to find the tabs that have loaded the content delivered when you clicked
on the URL or icon in Step 5 above.

Actual Results:  
I gave up and decided to report this.  I had to close and agree to kill the open
tabs - even though they contained information I wanted.  I simply could not view
them.

Expected Results:  
I think the software should have either allowed me a way to display full menu,
title, and navigation options while within the popup streaming media window, or
(preferably) a separate instance of Firefox should have started, containing the
tabs I wanted to view.  Maybe the F11 key could be coded to "restore normal
view" similar to IE.  I have used that trick in the past with IE.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of/related to bug 243893?

Comment 2

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

You can use Ctrl+Tab to get around this, but the bug has already been fixed.

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