532938 - Opening a file on Desktop in SeaMonkey opens to Home Page and not the file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 521699

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Knox Long]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0

When one opens a file from the Desktop and chooses SeaMonkey as the application to open the file in, SeaMonkey opens but instead of opening the file, it opens on to my home page (which is the where I normally want it to open).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Pick a file with the mouse, and try to open it with SeaMonkey
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Actual Results:  
SeaMonkey instantuates a new window, but it opens on the Home Page

Expected Results:  
Opening the file, of course.

I tried changing the preference to open at Last Page Visited instead my Home page and that made no difference.  I tried both opening both .html files and jpegs and the behavior was consistent.

Comment 1

[Knox Long]

I should have made clear.  What I am talking about is when one right clicks with the mouse so that one has a pull down menu and selects SeaMonkey to open the file in.  This does not happen if one double-clicks on an html file.

Comment 2

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Knox,
Do you mean that double-clicing the file doesn't result in only the home page opening (that's what bug 521699 is about)?

Comment 3

[Knox Long]

Stefan,

You may be right.  It certainly seems related in that the behavior is different depending on whether SeaMonkey was already running or not.  

If I have a file whose preferences have been set to open in SeaMonkey and if I simple click on that file as it appears on the Desktop, then SeaMonkey opens with that the file displayed properly, but only if SeaMonkey was not running before.  However, if it was already running, then it opens my home page.

I see the same behavior if I take a file using the pull down menu. If SeaMonkey was not previously running then the file opens up in SeaMonkey properly.  However, if SeaMonkey was running, then a new window is opened but it does not display the file I opened it on, but rather my home page.

Knox

Comment 4

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

I'm duping this against bug 521699, since it seems like the same cause here (I think I have a fix for this and it fixes all those issues)