305478 - opening links from other applications go to JavaScript pop-up windows instead on main browser window no tabs shown on pop-up window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 267655

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Owen Van Itallie]

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

If you are on a website that uses JavaScript to open a new borwser window
(pop-up style) and then you select a link from an external application such as
your e-mail program the link opens up in the pop-up window instead of the main
browser.  The problem with this is that the pop-up window does not have any menu
and no tabbed interface either.  As there is also no toolbar present so I cannot
press the back button to return to the previous page to reverse the error.  As a
result I cannot return the the original page that was loaded into the pop-up
window.  The only recource is to close the pop-up window and lose the previously
loaded page which may have been a form containing data entry - very annoying! 
On trying to close pop-up I am prompted with a warning message asking me if I
want to close all tabs associated with this window - of course I don't, but
there is no way that I know of to access the other tabs in the pop-up window
because the user interface (UI) doesn't allow it.  Given that the warning
displays it leads me to believe that below the surface of the UI an actual
instance of a tabbed window has been created and my other window is still
available, but not accessible through the UI (that is - the original page in the
pop-up was not replaced be the other link's content, it's just no longer visible
from the UI).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Under Advanced Options select: Open links from other applications in a new tab
in the most recent window.
2.Go to a website that has a JavaScript link which opens a pop-up browser window
(window.open) loading a new page into that pop-up window.
3.Click on a link in an external application such as an e-mail program like MS
Outlook.  

Actual Results:  
Links selected from other applications were directed to the pop-up window
instead of the main browser.

Expected Results:  
Links from other applications should be directed to the main browser window
(original browser instance) where a new tab should be created and the link
content should be loaded into that newly created tabbed window.

This bug may be related to bug report 172962.  However that bug was marked as
resolved so I believe that this is a new issue that has not been reported or
addressed yet?

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 267655 ***