Closed Bug 541922 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

When opening link from external applications, 2 browser windows open.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
Other
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 531552

People

(Reporter: morten, Unassigned)

Details

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

When clicking on a link within an external application (could be a link in an e-mail) Firefox opens 2 browser windows.

This has been tested on Mac OS/X 10.5 and 10.6 on both Intel- and PPC machines.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find an e-mail with a link for any website.
2. Make sure Firefox is your default browser.
3. Click on the link and observe that that 2 Windows opens.
Actual Results:  
2 browser windows will be open. One contains the destination which the link refers to while the other window show your browser homepage.

Expected Results:  
Only the one window with the destination should be opened.

Tested this with- and without any extensions enabled. Tested with default Firefox 3.6 theme.
Component: Build Config → General
QA Contact: build.config → general
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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