From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-AR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Firefox always opens links from other (external) apps in a new browser window, ignoring the "a new tab in the most recent window" user preference. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-1.0-2.fc3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Firefox 2. Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced. Under Tabbed Browsing, Open links from other applications in, choose "a new tab in the most recent window" option. Click OK. 3. Open any URL (ex. http://google.com) 4. Open any other application (ex., your mail reader) and click on any link Actual Results: Firefox opens a new window to show the content. Expected Results: Firefox should open a new TAB on the most recent window. Additional info: I think the problem is Firefox's start up script (/usr/bin/firefox), line 227. There's an explicit "new-window" parameter calling to openurl() that overrides the user preferences. If you leave out the new-window parameter, Firefox uses the user preference to decide whether to open a new tab or window.
Created attachment 108479 [details] Proposed patch to /usr/bin/firefox Attached proposed patch
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138789 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.