494065 - No way to open two tabs with about:jetpack

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs :: Jetpack Prototype, defect, P4)

Description

[Art]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
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When trying to open a new tab/window with about:jetpack existing one closes automatically. It'd be nice to have one tab with tutorial and other with development environment in there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open new tab, go to about:jetpack
2.Open another tab, type about:jetpack again, press enter
3. Only one tab with about:jetpack remains opened

Comment 1

[Steven Ramkumar]

Isn't it because Jetpack is implemented as a singleton?

Comment 2

[Atul Varma [:atul]]

Yes, this is because about:jetpack is a singleton.  We really need to fix this at some point, though, because the use case is certainly a valid one.

Comment 3

[Atul Varma [:atul]]

As a very temporary workaround, I've added some documentation on how to move your Jetpack to its own file:

  http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/jetpack/rev/4e144ece8a6e

It's useful for its own reasons too and is also in the tutorial, but repeating it isn't bad and this way hopefully folks who don't read the tutorial will see it (it's right under the editor widget on the 'Develop' tab).

Comment 4

[Nick Nguyen [:osunick]]

Atul wants to fix the root need by moving documentation out of about:jetpack- new bug to come soon.