688983 - When using the search box, the magnifying glass doesn't respect the value of browser.search.openintab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 513180

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Terry]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2
Build ID: 20110902133214

Steps to reproduce:

I set a switch in Firefox so that a new tab would be opened when searches are executed from the toolbar search window. I cannot remember the location of the switch variable, but I identified it by searching the Mozilla site looking for a way to get the "new tab" behavior from the search window.


Actual results:

I enter the search string into the window. Then, if I start the search by hitting the Enter key, Firefox opens the new tab. However, if I start the search by clicking the magnifying glass in the search window, the search opens in the active window, instead of opening a new window.


Expected results:

It should open a new tab for the search (Google) when I click the magnifying glass.

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Did you set browser.search.openintab as True in about:config?

Able to reproduce all the way back to at least Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.22) Gecko/20110902 Firefox/3.6.22 ID:20110902133716 so doesn't appear to be a recent regression....

Oh - found an open bug for this - duping now