Bug 144981

Summary:	Applications always open new window not a tab (ignoring preferences)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ondrej Svetlik <ondrej>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Description Ondrej Svetlik 2005-01-13 12:16:30 UTC

Description of problem:
Script /usr/bin/firefox doesn't open given link in a new tab (set
correctly in preferences) but in a new window. Script
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0/firefox works fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-1.0-2.fc3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run firefox
2. set it to load new links opened by an application to a new tab
3. from shell run firefox again with some link

  
Actual results:
Firefox opens a new window with given link.

Expected results:
New tab should be opened in the old window.


Additional info:
To solve this issue try:
rm -f /usr/bin/firefox
ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

This works for me.

Comment 1 Thilo Pfennig 2005-02-19 12:52:46 UTC

Does not work for me.

Steps to reproduce:

 1. Open in GNOME "gnome-default-application-properties"
 2. change browser to "firefox -remote 'openURL(%s,new-tab)'
 3. Maybe click a link in evolution

Actual results:

no windows is opening and no tab

Expected results:

new tab is opening

Additional info:
Works via command line. Is this a GNOME problem?

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2005-02-28 15:38:00 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138789 ***

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:07:54 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.