362117 - 3 of 4 "good popup" test cases open new windows, and not a new tab

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

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3 of 4 "good popup" test cases open new windows, and not a new tab in Fx 2.0

note, I checked and Fx 1.5.0.8 behaves the same way (so for these test cases, we haven't regressed)

I believe dbaron has mentioned this is something he'd really like to see fixed for Fx 3.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction defaults to 2, so we only force windows without specified features into new tabs.  When we forced everything into tabs, this had a very negative effect on webapps that were using good popups, so we changed that pref.

I don't think this is a bug, its a design choice, and there's still a hidden pref (set to 0 to force everything into tabs).

Comment 2

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mconnor, thanks for the info.

setting browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 0 does the trick for me (for all four popups on that test page).

given that there is a hidden pref, and mconnor's explanation, marking wontfix.