Issue 16917 - Registration tries to start a new browser
Summary: Registration tries to start a new browser
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: www (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC
Hardware: PC All
: P5 (lowest) Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO Later
Assignee: Frank Schönheit
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Reported: 2003-07-16 01:34 UTC by sandalle
Modified: 2003-07-17 16:07 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description sandalle 2003-07-16 01:34:28 UTC 
When asked to register, if you select "Register now" OO tries to start your
default browser and load the registration page.  This is normaly fine, except
when Mozilla (and possibly others) is set as your default browser /and/ you
already have mozilla open.  Mozilla can only have one instance of itself open at
a time.

A proper fix would have OO check if the default browswer is already open, and if
so, open a new /window/, otherwise open a new browser. And I say open a new
window because I don't want my current page to change.
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2003-07-16 08:31:04 UTC 
Please have a look.
Comment 2 atr 2003-07-16 15:17:13 UTC 
HI Frank, please have a look, thanks.
Comment 3 Frank Schönheit 2003-07-16 16:13:14 UTC 
correcting priority
Given that you encounter the registration dialog _once_ per
installation, I think that P5 is more appropriate.
Comment 4 sandalle 2003-07-16 16:30:57 UTC 
Yeah, sorry, I just left the defaults for priority.  ;)
Comment 5 Frank Schönheit 2003-07-16 17:05:19 UTC 
Hmm. Now that I think about it:

This is the usual behaviour for applications starting a the systems
browser with an arbitrary URL. They simply call this browser with an
request to display this URL. It's up to the browser how it implements
this request.

It's also the default behaviour of all links in other OpenOffice.org
components. For instance, if you have a HTTP-link in a text document,
and click on it, the result is exactly the same: In case there's
already an opened browser instance, the content of it's current
window/pane is exchanged with the new URL. Again: This is a browser
decision, not a OpenOffice.org decision.

So this is not a bug in OpenOffice.org, in my opinion.
Comment 6 Frank Schönheit 2003-07-16 17:05:35 UTC 
closing
Comment 7 sandalle 2003-07-16 20:56:30 UTC 
No, that's the default way to call Internet Explorer (IIRC).  I'm not
sure about Opera, Konqueror, Safari, etc., but I think they may
operate the same way as Mozilla.
Comment 8 Frank Schönheit 2003-07-17 10:57:51 UTC 
> No, that's the default way to call Internet Explorer (IIRC)

no, sorry, this is wrong. StarOffice doesn't call Mozilla or IE or
whatever. The operating system (Windows) provides a "default browser".
Applications (such as StarOffice) can simply call the "default
browser", and pass it an URL, _without_even_knowing_ which browser it is.

This is what StarOffice does, and every well-behaving (in a sense of
system integration) application does the same.
This concept also implies that it's difficult to open a new window by
intent: Because the application does not know which browser it
addresses, it cannot use any specifics of this browser.
Comment 9 sandalle 2003-07-17 16:07:52 UTC 
Ahh, okay. So this would more be a bug for the Mozilla people to address?