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Zen doesn't open external links if no browser instances are running #1009

Open AdilDevStuff opened 2 weeks ago

AdilDevStuff commented 2 weeks ago

What happened?

I m having this issue that when all the instances of zen are closed and when I open any external link, it just opens the browser window with the last tab opened and no link. I have to open the link again to get the correct link working!

Im using flatpak version and this is a video of this bug/issue

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/caeedc2b-5a0f-4ed6-858b-52c869791ba8

Reproducible?

Version

1.0.0-a.30

Severity impact

Medium

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Linux

Relevant log output

No response

mcmerdith commented 2 weeks ago

This issue also occurs for me when opening an external link without the default profile open. As an example I use a different profile for school so when I only have my school profile open and launch an external link it opens my default profile without following the link. Experienced on Windows 11. Ideal experience would be the link opens in the most recently used profile

diego-velez commented 1 week ago

I'm also having this issue, but for me it doesn't open the link that I'm trying to open even if I already have a Zen instance open.

EzeKoren commented 1 week ago

I have the same issue as Diego, where clicking on a link doesn't open it in a running instance at all, and if there are no open Zen instances, the browser doesn't launch when clicking a link. I have a single profile (the default one), and I'm also using the Flatpak version 1.0.0-a.32 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

nettum commented 5 days ago

Maybe this should be reported as an own issue, but I have a similar issue as @diego-velez and @EzeKoren. When I click an external URL on slack it opens a new instance (but does not load the URL, just opens a new empty tab) even though I already have a running instance open. Seems like both browser windows uses the same profile (default).

> lsb_release -a && /home/marius/Programs/zen/zen --version
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Release:    22.04
Codename:   jammy
Mozilla Zen 1.0.0-a.39

I downloaded the optimized portable zip from https://zen-browser.app/download