[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#581391: chromium-browser: No option to open links from external programs in a new window

[Jonathan Nieder]

Sam Morris wrote:

> In gnome-default-applications-properties, the options allowing me to
> choose whether links are opened in a new link or new tab are all
> disabled.
> 
> Forcing new links to open in another tab is annoying, because I
> frequently open links in programs on workspaces that don't contain my
> browser window. Switching to another workspace to follow the link breaks
> my concentration.

Makes sense.  I do not have GNOME installed myself; could you confirm
that this still happens (I assume it does) and file a bug upstream?

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry?template=Defect%20on%20Linux

Thanks for the report,
Jonathan