Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 141564
URLs open in new windows instead of tabs
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:56 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: In the advanced section of preferences, there is an option to 'open links from other applications in a new tab in the most recent window'. Even though I have enabled this option, URLs still open in new windows. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0-2.fc3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In the advanced section of the preferences dialog, choose the option to open URLs in a new tab of the most recent window 2. Start firefox 3. Start another application like evolution or thunderbird, and click on a link in it Actual Results: The link opens in a new firefox window Expected Results: The link is supposed to open in a new tab of the original firefox window Additional info: It seems that most applications will simply run 'firefox URL'. this will invoke /usr/bin/firefox. When I examine this script, the last but one line is: exec $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM $MOZ_CLIENT_PROGRAM_PARAM "openurl($opt,new-window)" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null So it seems that despite the preference setting, a new window will always open. I edited /usr/bin/firefox and changed the word 'window' to 'tab', and now all URLs open in a new tab. But this is an annoying bug that has been around since before version 1.0 of firefox, and needs a proper fix.
I tried removing the word "window", and it seems that doing that will make the script honor whatever the user preference is (new tab, new window, current tab).
Rich, You are absolutely correct. I tried it as you suggested. I removed the 'new-tab' part, and now firefox follows the setting in the preferences. So this seems to be the correct fix. Now we wait and see if Warren manages to get it into the next update.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138789 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.