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Jay Allen started following the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic.

Thomas Nicholls replied on July 10, 2008 07:39 to the problem "Clicking links from AIR apps opens new Firefox windows instead of tabs" in Adobe:

+1 for the extreme annoyance this causes. We need a fix!

Andrew replied on July 06, 2008 19:20 to the problem "Clicking links from AIR apps opens new Firefox windows instead of tabs" in Adobe:

This is a crazy problem, what kind of voodoo is Adobe AIR doing on the Mac to open a link? Why does it differ from the default behaviour of opening a link from any other normal application on the Mac OS, which works fine and lets the default browser i.e. Firefox open a new tab, if that's the desired user preference. This just makes no sense and needs to be fixed, not maybe, not perhaps - it should be fixed, and it should be made a priority.

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Stepan Mazurov replied on July 05, 2008 23:41 to the problem "Clicking links from AIR apps opens new Firefox windows instead of tabs" in Adobe:

Since the problem in the mac with Firefox, does that mean it will never be fixed because we are a minority? At least and ETA or something along the lines of 'it will be fixed in 1.2' would be plenty, but acknowledging the problem and then shoving it aside is not very good PR.

I consider this a MAJOR problem with mac version of your software, downright usable.

A comment on the idea "Please add an API for application developers" in Plurk:

Very wise. Plurk needs to be careful not to make the same mistakes Twitter did (does). Seems like you are more on top of it than they are. – Scott-O-Rama, on July 03, 2008 21:38

Rafael Fonseca replied on July 03, 2008 21:12 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

I understand that the point is the Adobe AIR framework, as I have been recently finding some other issues on it, which makes me think it's not quite finished yet.

The problem is that even though Firefox is NOT set as my default browser, Twhirl is still trying to open it.

When I said other AIR apps were not doing the same thing, I was reporting what I experienced. Last time I've tried navigateToUrl() on an AIR app, the framework was in beta, and it worked like a charm.

Did anyone experience that with AIR 1.0? Or beta/alpha?

Amir Salihefendic replied on July 03, 2008 20:41 to the idea "Please add an API for application developers" in Plurk:

An API will be made when we have things as stability and performance figured out.

Marco Kaiser replied on July 03, 2008 16:01 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Scott,

thanks ;-) I'm not sure if this issue has been solved on Windows with one of the last AIR releases, but originally it was more prominent there than on OS X.

Even the official release notes from Adobe for AIR contained a workaround to solve the issue on Windows.

Anyway, I share everyone's feelings here that this is a really annoying thing, but as you pointed out, it cannot be solved from within twhirl.

Marco

Scott-O-Rama replied on July 03, 2008 15:53 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Per David Coletta, Adobe Employee:

"Just wanted to say, we are aware of this problem with navigateToURL() in AIR when Firefox/Mac is the default browser, and we are tracking it. To the best of our knowledge it is only a problem on the Mac, not with Firefox for Windows.

I can't promise if or when it will be fixed, but I hope that it's at least some comfort that it's on our list"

You can find his reply here: http://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topi...

David Coletta replied on July 03, 2008 15:44 to the problem "Clicking links from AIR apps opens new Firefox windows instead of tabs" in Adobe:

Just wanted to say, we are aware of this problem with navigateToURL() in AIR when Firefox/Mac is the default browser, and we are tracking it. To the best of our knowledge it is only a problem on the Mac, not with Firefox for Windows.

I can't promise if or when it will be fixed, but I hope that it's at least some comfort that it's on our list.

Philip Ryan Johnson replied on July 03, 2008 15:10 to the problem "Clicking links from AIR apps opens new Firefox windows instead of tabs" in Adobe:

This is by far the worst problem with Adobe AIR applications. I love using Twhirl for Twitter and FriendFeed, but absolutely hate it when links keep opening new windows in Firefox. I cringe every time. AIR apps will never survive with a simple, yet very huge bug.

Julien Banchet replied on July 03, 2008 15:05 to the problem "Clicking links from AIR apps opens new Firefox windows instead of tabs" in Adobe:

This thing totally turned me off.

If XUL had the hype AIR got, I'm pretty sure there wouldn't have been this kind of dumb problems :-/

fuzzyman replied on July 03, 2008 15:03 to the problem "Clicking links from AIR apps opens new Firefox windows instead of tabs" in Adobe:

If you go to forums for AIR clients for Twitter and Pownce (like Twhirl) they all have crowds of users complaining about this behaviour. *Very* annoying.

Julien Banchet started following the problem "Clicking links from AIR apps opens new Firefox windows instead of tabs" in Adobe.

Scott-O-Rama replied on July 03, 2008 14:46 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

After reading around the web, Marco's reply is absolutely right. Many (all?) Adobe AIR apps are experiencing this exact same issue particularly when Firefox is set as the default browser.

This is an Adobe AIR issue, not a Twhirl one, so I would highly suggest that everyone go the this thread and add your voice asking Adobe to fix it: http://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topi...

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Håvard Pedersen replied on July 03, 2008 13:54 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Rafael Fonseca, I'd love to hear which Air apps that open links in new tabs.

Most Air apps like the Pownce client, Spaz (another Twitter client) and others all have bugs registered for this behaviour, and they all seem to agree it's Adobes fault (though it looks like it only happens when used with Firefox as the default browser).

It also looks like it's a very old bug, so I can't understand why Adobe can't seem to fix it.

Marco Kaiser replied on July 03, 2008 13:39 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Well, actually I'd be happy if it would be a problem in twhirl, because then I could solve it!

This problem affects ONLY AIR applications, so if all other (native) apps use another browser, that has nothing to do with this issue.

To give you some technical background about this issue: twhirl is based on Flash and the Flex framework. There is just one way to actually open a URL in an external system browser from these kind of AIR applications. There are no options we could send with the URL that can influence how, where or by which application that URL is captured and opened in the end.

For reference, the call used to do this is navigateToURL().

I would be interested to know which other AIR applications you are using that open a link in another browser?

Robert Basil replied on July 03, 2008 03:50 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Rafael,

Same exact thing here. So the problem is not air but Twhirl. Hey Twhirl team, how about a fix now that we know the problem is on your end and not with air?