420334 - Other applications load Firefox for hyperlinks but FF doesn't open the link

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[andrew.pennebaker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008022904 Minefield/3.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008022904 Minefield/3.0b4pre

When another application such as Mail.app opens Firefox to display a page, no tab opens or any other indication that Firefox has opened the link. This happens with many Mac programs. If Firefox is already running, the link is correctly opened.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

This could conceivably be an AppleScript issue.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Is this still an issue with Firefox3.0.3 ?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no response

Comment 4

[Gavin Stokes]

This is happening under Mac OS with 3.5.4.  And it happens on every system.  I've installed FF on three cleanly installed SnowLeopard systems, and it doesn't follow external links of any of them unless it's already running.  Seems to me that SnowLeopard broke it, but maybe I updated FF at the same time.