582470 - Launching Fx by clicking a URL in another app opens under previous session

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 531552

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Zandr Milewski [:zandr]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2

If Fx isn't running, and you click a URL in another app, it will launch Fx, restore your previous session, and open the new URL in a new window *under* the windows from session restore.

If you closed everything before you exited Fx on in the last session, your URL will end up under a window with a single "New Tab".

I initially assumed that shell opens were just entirely broken, but that's not the case.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Exit Fx
2.Click a URL in another app
3.Wonder what happened to the URL you opened.
Actual Results:  
The URL ends up in a new window at the bottom of the stack

Expected Results:  
The URL ends up in a new tab on the topmost window, or in a new window at the top of the stack.

Comment 2

[Zandr Milewski [:zandr]]

Man, we need to figure out how to make search more effective. Never found that bug. Also never noticed it in 3.6, fwiw.