557500 - Opening from a URL opens an extra blank window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 531552

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[scottito]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

When Firefox is opened by double clicking a URL on the desktop opens the URL and an extra new window. This is new behavior in Firefox 3.6.3 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Quit Firefox. Bug does not occur when Firefox is already open
2.Double click a URL on the desktop to launch Firefox
3.You get a window with the URL and a blank window
Actual Results:  
Get a window with the URL and a blank window

Expected Results:  
Get one window with the URL loaded

Problem began when I installed 3.6.3 and never occurred in earlier versions.

Comment 1

[Gavin Stokes]

Happening under Mac OS 10.6 also.  Firefox 3.6.3.

Comment 2

[Gavin Stokes]

By the way, this problem predates this version by quite a bit.  There are other reports on this, so this is a dupe.

Comment 3

[scottito]

Perhaps the problem predates 3.6.3 but it never happened on my machine (or my wife's, which has a later operating system, until we installed 3.6.3, and now it happens 100% of the time, so something changed in the current version of Firefox.

Comment 4

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

scottito,

Do you normally get a blank window when you launch Firefox?

Did you went from Firefox 3.5.x to 3.6.3? The reson I ask is that (if I'm right about the issue), this issue existed in 3.6 too.

Comment 5

[Shaun]

Also happens when clicking on a text file (html) and choosing "open with Firefox".
(I usually open these files in Text Edit for editing purposes.)

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 7

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Assuming the reporter went from 3.5.x to 3.6.x, this is a dupe of bug 531552. It's actually fixed in 3.6.x, but the issue still remains in beta 4.