537267 - Setting browser.link.open_newwindow to 3 causes external links to open in the same window

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mildred Ki'Lya]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091216 Fedora/3.5.6-1.fc12 Firefox/3.5.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091216 Fedora/3.5.6-1.fc12 Firefox/3.5.6

browser.link.open_external is no longer honoured. This makes it impossible to have target=_blank links open in a new tab and at the same time having external links open in a new window

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open about:config
2. Set browser.link.open_external to 2
3. Set browser.link.open_newwindow to 3
4. Open a link from an external application
5. Open a target=_blank link
Actual Results:  
Both links open in a new tab

Expected Results:  
The external link should open in a new window

Comment 1

[Daniel Hahler]

This setting was changed/removed in Firefox 3.5.

See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/110115/ for an extension to provide this (rather essential) functionality.