522941 - Opens two windows when a link is opened from external application

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 531552

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[u220127]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091017 Minefield/3.7a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091017 Minefield/3.7a1pre

When a link is opened from external application, and there are no Firefox windows open, Firefox opens two windows — one blank and one with the link that was opened.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox.
2. Close all Firefox windows, but don't quit firefox.
3. Click a hyperlink in an external application (Adium, iChat, Preview ...)
Actual Results:  
Firefox opens two windows:
A blank new window with empty location bar
A new window with clicked URL being loaded

Expected Results:  
A single new window with clicked link being loaded

Comment 1

[u220127]

A mistake there. The defect happens when firefox is started by opening a link from external application.

So steps to reproduce should be:
1. Set Firefox as default browser.
2. Quit firefox.
3. Click a link from an external app.

Comment 2

[Jean Pierre Wenzel]

Can confirm this issue on my machine.

Prerequisite: Firefox set as default browser.

1. Quit Firefox if running.
2. Open shell and enter

   open "http://www.mozilla.com"

-> Firefox starts and opens two windows. One of them is an emtpy window, the other one shows the website I requested.

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6