[Mozilla Enterprise] Opening link from other program opens new instance of firefox

Mike Kaply mkaply at mozilla.com
Thu Sep 5 13:21:42 UTC 2019


No remote is what usually creates this problem.

Do you have more than one profile?

Is the Firefox you are using the default profile?

Mike

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 1:47 AM Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>
wrote:

> Windows. I have not tweaked how FF starts in any way. Should I add
> -no-remote in open with -commands in registry to avoid that behavior?
>
> Timo Pietilä
>
> On 4.9.2019 18.34, Mike Kaply wrote:
> > Do you have Firefox started with -no-remote?
> >
> > what platform are you on?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:00 AM Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi
> > <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>> wrote:
> >
> >     This is behavior of 68 that is not specifically esr-related but I
> would
> >     like to know how to prevent it:
> >
> >     If you click a link from for example thunderbird it doesn't open
> >     link in
> >     already open FF but to new instance of FF. How do I prevent this? Is
> >     there a property or policy that forces links to open in new tab in
> >     already open FF?
> >
> >     Timo Pietilä
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