511558 - Links from other programs are opened in new window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[fulner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061212 Iceweasel/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-1)
Build Identifier:  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090717 SeaMonkey/2.0b1

Seamonkey 2 Beta I have set as my default browser. When I click on hyperlinks from other programs (Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Instantbird, OpenOffice.org) these webpages are opened in a new window. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set Seamonkey as default via Control Panel
2.Click on Hyperlink from another program (Listed above are those I've tried)

Actual Results:  
The URL is opened in a New Window

Expected Results:  
I would expect it to open in a new Tab in an existing window and that the focus would be changed to this new tab in an existing window. 

I orginally was going to file this into OS integration, but thought it may work better in Tabbed Browsing, feel free to move it. Can that be done?

Comment 1

[Andy Boze]

This behavior should be configurable. Look under Edit | Preferences | Browser | Tabbed Browsing. The settings you're looking for will be in the section "Links from other applications".

Comment 2

[lenochod]

fulner, Comments 1 of setting up solve your problem?

Comment 3

[fulner]

Yes, that fixed my problem. I really though that I had looked through all of those options before I submitted the bug. I apologize. 

Just my two cents: I think this should be the default action, and one should have to change to allow the other.