User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040706 Firefox/0.8.0+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040706 Firefox/0.8.0+ Using, for example, Thunderbird and clicking on an HTML link, or ( on Windoze at least ) clicking / opening an HTML document, causes a message to Firefox to open the given URL. In MS-World, I guess that's the Protocol-From-Hell DDE method. At present, Firefox always appears to pick one of its windows - probably the most recently used - and to overwrite the active tab with the new content. THIS RFE REQUESTS, a preference setting to allow alternative opening (2) in a new tab or (3) in a new window. [ (1) being what it does now ]. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:

This was done a long time ago *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75138 ***

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change