Closed
Bug 468973
Opened 16 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
3.1b2 doesn't honor browser.link.open_external = 2 (Open in New Window)
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Firefox
General
Tracking
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VERIFIED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: erik, Unassigned)
References
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2 While 3.1b1 removed the preferences UI for browser.link.open_external, it honored the setting if entered via about:config. 3.1b2 ignores the setting and uses the default (3, "Open in a new tab in the current window"). I have not tried setting the value to 1 ("Open in current window") to see if that's honored. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set Firefox as your default browser 2. set browser.link.open_external = 2 in about:config 3. open URL externally. Any program should work (as should "open '<url>'" on the command line) Actual Results: New URL opens in a tab in the current window Expected Results: New URL opens in a new window I can't believe this isn't a duplicate bug, but I've searched quite a bit and can't find a previous submission.
Comment 1•16 years ago
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Also happens on Windows, so -> All. I still don't know whether this is a bug, though. Or how the following settings are supposed to behave (and whether they may override browser.link.open_external): browser.link.open_newwindow browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction
OS: Mac OS X → All
Hardware: PC → All
browser.link.open_newwindow & browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction detail how to behave when a link or javascript try to open a new window (via target="_blank" or JS popup) While they're related, the behavior is currently separate (though 3.1b2 is not honoring that) http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction
Updated•16 years ago
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Flags: blocking-firefox3.1?
Comment 3•15 years ago
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the behaviour is no longer separate, as of bug 324164 The prefs have been collated in the UI since around Firefox 2, IIRC, this was just a housecleaning op.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Updated•15 years ago
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Flags: blocking-firefox3.1?
Updated•15 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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