User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030928 Firebird/0.7 (chocoba65 DOMi-Venkman-P4/AthlonXP SSE) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030928 Firebird/0.7 (chocoba65 DOMi-Venkman-P4/AthlonXP SSE) If you set up a link to a protocol that is not handled in Firebird and also set it's target to _blank a window will open and jus sit there doing nothing. In my opinion Firebird should not open the window at all, because it is not the actual handler for the opened url. Appart from edonkey urls (ed2k://) and mail urls (mailto:) etc there are a lot of protocols that get registed in windows which Firebird itself cannot handle (mms: rtsp: to name another few). If Firebird comes across a protocol that is not on it's list of registed protocols, then it should not open a new blank window. It should just pass the url on to the shell. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:

Dup of bug 102380.

Bug 102380 is about unhandled types. This bug is specific about unhandled protocols. Mozilla could check much earlier what protocol it is going to open, so a different strategy should exist for protocols than for unhandled file types.

see also bug 241972

at reporter: as bug 241972 is fixed do you still see this issue ? If no, please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thank you.

Closed this Bug as WORKSFORME due to lacking Feedback