clicking the "report a bug" button inside blender opens a new browser instance and not just a tab #81377

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opened 2020-10-02 13:12:24 +02:00 by tt · 8 comments

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Operating system: Linux-5.4.0-48-generic-x86_64-with-debian-bullseye-sid 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 450.66

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Broken: version: 2.90.1, branch: master, commit date: 2020-09-23 06:43, hash: 3e85bb34d0
Worked: 2.83 maybe

Short description of error
clicking the "report a bug" button inside blender opens a new browser instance and not just a tab with firefox as default browser. It opened just a tab before. Not that big of a problem, but when closing the normal browsing browser with lots of tabs open and forgetting that the "report a bug" instance is still open this is the last open window and thus remember to open the browser like this and all other open tabs are gone. Sometimes not that bad to get rid of thousands of tabs but mostly unwanted behaviour.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
click the "report a bug" button inside blender

**System Information** Operating system: Linux-5.4.0-48-generic-x86_64-with-debian-bullseye-sid 64 Bits Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 450.66 **Blender Version** Broken: version: 2.90.1, branch: master, commit date: 2020-09-23 06:43, hash: `3e85bb34d0` Worked: 2.83 maybe **Short description of error** clicking the "report a bug" button inside blender opens a new browser instance and not just a tab with firefox as default browser. It opened just a tab before. Not that big of a problem, but when closing the normal browsing browser with lots of tabs open and forgetting that the "report a bug" instance is still open this is the last open window and thus remember to open the browser like this and all other open tabs are gone. Sometimes not that bad to get rid of thousands of tabs but mostly unwanted behaviour. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** click the "report a bug" button inside blender
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Cannot reproduce here.

Firefox 80.0.1 for Fedora

Also I dont see codechanges that might have caused this.
Blender just does webbrowser.open https://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html#webbrowser.open without additional arguments, so the default is to "open in the same browser window if possible"

What happens if you just do this:

import webbrowser
webbrowser.open("https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/")

Does this also open a new window?

Cannot reproduce here. Firefox 80.0.1 for Fedora Also I dont see codechanges that might have caused this. Blender just does `webbrowser.open` https://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html#webbrowser.open without additional arguments, so the default is to "open in the same browser window if possible" What happens if you just do this: ``` import webbrowser webbrowser.open("https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/") ``` Does this also open a new window?
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I tried the "report a bug" button again, and it opened a new window.

Then I pasted that text into a new text file and let blender run it.

This opens a new tab. Afterwards clicking the "report a bug" button opens in a new tab, this has fixed it.

I tried the "report a bug" button again, and it opened a new window. Then I pasted that text into a new text file and let blender run it. This opens a new tab. Afterwards clicking the "report a bug" button opens in a new tab, this has fixed it.
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Changed status from 'Needs User Info' to: 'Resolved'

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Ankit Meel self-assigned this 2020-10-18 22:10:35 +02:00
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Afterwards clicking the "report a bug" button opens in a new tab, this has fixed it.

> Afterwards clicking the "report a bug" button opens in a new tab, this has fixed it.
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