645689 - When running Thunderbird with the -addressbook command, a new address book opens, even if one is already open.

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Steps to reproduce:

1)  Start Thunderbird
2)  At the command prompt, execute Thunderbird with the "-addressbook" argument
3)  Repeat step 2

What happens:

A new address book opens every time step 2 is run.

What is expected:

If an address book is already open, we should probably focus on it, instead of opening a new one.

This is similar to the behaviour of 3pane - if we run Thunderbird while Thunderbird is already open, 3pane refocuses instead of spawning a new instance.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

A couple of hints for solving this bug:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mail/base/content/utilityOverlay.js#333
http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbManager.cpp#1221

nsAbManager probably just needs to check for the open window first. I can't remember if .focus() brings to top or not, but there should be similar functionality around elsewhere to look at if not.