440921 - New Pages Open Up in New Windows, Despite Being Set to Open in New Tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 314721

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Michael Santo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

Example: Start entering a post in Blogger.  Try to embed a picture.  In the past, it would open a new tab if "Open new pages in a new tab" was set.  Now it opens a new window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter Blogger
2. Try to Embed Picture
3. New window opens instead of new tab.

Note: this is just an example, it happens in other instances as well.
Actual Results:  
opens a new window

Expected Results:  
Should open a new tab.

Comment 1

[Michael Santo]

Entered bug in FF2 ... reverted after finding issue, but issue exists only in FF3.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Can you give another URL (without login) where this happens?

Comment 3

[Michael Santo]

Goto MSNBC.com.  Select one of the links to a video.  In FF2 with that setting it will open in a new tab.  In FF3 it will open in a new Window.

Note I am running TabMixPlus but when I disable it it still acts the same.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

This is probably happening because the site specifies a size for the popup.  See this page for how to change the behavior:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction