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Bug 687124
Opened 13 years ago
Updated 12 years ago
Closing all browser windows prevents Chatzilla from opening links
Categories
(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)
Other Applications
ChatZilla
Tracking
(Not tracked)
NEW
People
(Reporter: wes, Assigned: rginda)
References
Details
(Keywords: regression)
In older versions of Firefox/Chatzilla, you could close all browser windows, leaving Chatzilla open, but when you clicked on an http:// link in ChatZilla, it would pop up a new browser window and go to the link. Now if you close all browser windows but leave Chatzilla running, you're pretty much hosed -- you can't open any links by clicking on them, and there is no other mechanism to open a browser window, so you have to shut down ChatZilla, and then re-launch Firefox so that you can surf the web again. This is a major UX failure! I suspect is brought on by the change where instead of opening a new window you guys just shoot clicked-on links into a tab.
Comment 1•13 years ago
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This is a regression from bug 656105.
Comment 2•13 years ago
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(In reply to Wesley W. Garland from comment #0) [...] > Now if you close all browser windows but leave Chatzilla running, you're > pretty much hosed -- you can't open any links by clicking on them, and there > is no other mechanism to open a browser window, so you have to shut down > ChatZilla, and then re-launch Firefox so that you can surf the web again. [...] Well, at least on SeaMonkey there is a "Window" menu in Chatzilla, with menuitems "Browser", "Mail & Newsgroups", "Composer", "Address Book" and even "IRC Chat" (the latter does nothing since we're already in cZ). If you start Firefox while ChatZilla-in-Firefox is still running, by typing firefox -url http://some.site.com/somepage.html at the (bash, cmd.exe or Terminal.app) command-line, with http:// and what follows being optained by copy-paste, does it reopen a browser window in the same instance of Firefox which is already running ChatZilla? I would expect it to.
Comment 3•13 years ago
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Oh, and what about right-clicking the link, then "Open Link in New Window" ?
Comment 4•12 years ago
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Is this still an issue in ChatZilla 0.9.88.2?
Comment 5•12 years ago
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(In reply to James Ross from comment #4) > Is this still an issue in ChatZilla 0.9.88.2? I think this was an issue with a particular version of Firefox, either way I haven't seen this problem for several months now.
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