99945 - add preference to control if openurl() opens a new window or not

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

It would be nice if there was a preference so that any openurl() x-remote
requests would open a new window instead of just opening it in an existing one.
 This wouldn't be too hard to do.

Comment 1

[[not reading bugmail]]

---- from discuss newsgroup.

Pipo wrote:

    The "mozilla" script is very useful, but I found annoying the fact that it
picks an existing mozilla window to open the new URL. A very minor change allows
using a new window for a new URL.
    In the script, just change:

$MOZ_PROGRAM -remote "openurl($opt)" 2>/dev/null > /dev/null

    to:

$MOZ_PROGRAM -remote "openurl($opt,new-window)" 2>/dev/null > /dev/null


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Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Probably a dup of bug 75138, [RFE] pref to open links from other 
apps/components in a new window.  Just in case openurl() isn't controlled by 
that pref when the pref is added, making it a dependency instead.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 116653, "Implement -remote openURL(URL, new-tab)", which I think
should be a pref rather than a parameter.

Comment 4

[Kevin Ar18]

Supposedly, Bug 75138 depends on this bug.  Should this bug's severity be raised
to "critical" in order to match the bug it is blocking?

Comment 5

[Worcester12345]

What about opening into a new tab?

Comment 6

[Robin Monks]

*** Bug 215428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

This was fixed by bug 75138 and related bugs.

Comment 8

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to comment #7)
> This was fixed by bug 75138 and related bugs.
> 

75138 does not seem fixed...