332086 - Tab options 'open links from other applications in...' should be removed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Lloyd Wood]

The only safe option to open links from other applications is in a new window.

The most recent window may be in a popup window where the navigation controls are not accessible. The new material may overwrite something the user was looking at, with no way for the user to press 'back'. I've also been surprised by what mozilla thinks the most recent window is. When you've got multiple windows open and are switching between them while another application churns in the background, which window content you lose to the new content becomes a lottery.

A new tab in the most recent window may be in a popup window where the tab controls are not accessible, so that the tab is not visible.

This tab option should be removed from the Options, and default to opening in a new window.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Links opening in popup windows should no longer happen in Firefox 1.5. If it does then that is a bug that should be fixed.

Comment 2

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

"A new tab in the most recent window" is useful, and the situation you describe with tabs opening in tabbar-less windows doesn't happen anymore (since bug 243893 was fixed).

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

This option was removed with the pref rewrite, right?

Comment 4

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

Indeed.