480733 - Browser ignores links opened from other applications when no windows are open

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel E.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090228 Minefield/3.2a1pre Ubiquity/0.1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090228 Minefield/3.2a1pre Ubiquity/0.1.4

A few days ago, my Mozilla Firefox nightlies started to ignore links opened in other applications if not at least one Mozilla Firefox window is already open.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make Mozilla Firefox your default browser
2. Open Mozilla Firefox
3. Close all browser windows (Mozilla Firefox remains active in the Dock)
4. Click on a link in another application, e.g. Apple Mail
Actual Results:  
Nothing, e.g. the clicked link is not opened in a Mozilla Firefox window

Expected Results:  
The clicked link should be opened in a Mozilla Firefox window

The problem does not occur if one or more Mozilla Firefox windows are already open, no matter whether they are empty or containing content.

Comment 1

[philippe (part-time)]

This is a recent regression:

OK
Gecko/20090215 Minefield/3.2a1pre
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/bd35ca5e194a

fails:
Gecko/20090216 Minefield/3.2a1pre
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b5359ab6a52c

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=bd35ca5e194a&tochange=b5359ab6a52c

I'm not sure what may have caused this


It still works fine in Gecko/20090228 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre. Only trunk is affected.

Confirming and tweaking summary.

Comment 3

[David Humphrey (:humph)]

In my own debug build (updated now) this is WFM.  Clicking a link in TB or using |open http://www.yahoo.com| from Terminal.app with no windows open, but Minefield running in the dock, gets me a new window and the link loaded.  If you can help me try and reproduce here, I'll attempt a fix.  But right now I can't see it.

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

You are right. With the 0308 Minefield build this is WFM at the moment. I'll do  a little bit more test to be sure though.

Comment 5

[philippe (part-time)]

I never figured out what exactly 'fixed' - or solve - the issue. Anyway, WFM since early March. Marking this bugs as such.