421279 - openURL(...,new-tab) on a window with just one blank tab could replace that instead of creating a new one

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 320989

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Vasilis Vasaitis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; el; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030517 Firefox/3.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; el; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030517 Firefox/3.0b5pre

Hi,

I'd like to ask for a small feature that hopefully shouldn't be too hard to implement. What I would like to request is this: If I have a window open with only one blank tab in it, and that window receives an openURL(<url>,new-tab) command, that the URL be loaded in the existing blank tab instead of creating a new one.

Typically, I tell other programs to open links in new tabs in my browser. When I have just started the browser though, and it's just one blank window, having the link in a new tab doesn't really serve anything; I just end up closing the initial empty one after the link is loaded.

Besides, a window with one blank tab is almost the conceptional equivalent of a window with no tabs. When I press Ctrl-W to close the last tab of the window (with the option to always show the tab bar enabled), Firefox doesn't close the window, instead it kills that tab and creates a blank one. So I'm just trying to say that the behaviour I'm requesting would be somewhat consistent with that.

Thanks,
Vasilis



Reproducible: Always

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