[tor-bugs] #19414 [- Select a component]: Pointless, nonfuctional options in Tor Browser

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#19414: Pointless, nonfuctional options in Tor Browser
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     Reporter:  user1128              |      Owner:
         Type:  defect                |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                |  Milestone:
    Component:  - Select a component  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                |   Keywords:
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 (duplicated by request from <https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/11736
 /pointless-nonfuctional-options-in-tor-browser>)

 I use Tor Browser often enough on my Windows 7 PC to have a semi-permanent
 entry for it in my Start Menu, and when I hover the mouse over that entry,
 a submenu appears with a list of options: "Open new tab", "Open new
 window", and "New private window". I never paid much attention to this
 before (except to think that "New private window" was somewhat redundant),
 but today I tried "Open new tab" with Tor running. I expected a new, blank
 tab to open in the existing Tor Browser window, but the actual response
 surprised me: "Tor Browser is already running, but is not responding. The
 old Tor Browser process must be closed to open a new window." (As I said,
 I was not trying to open a new window.) Canceling out of that dialog
 brought me to the main Tor window, which continued to function perfectly
 normally (i.e. Tor Browser hadn't crashed, as the appearance of similar
 dialogs usually implies.)

 I assume that the sort of communication between the OS and the program
 that would be necessary for this to work has been blocked as one of Tor's
 security measures, but if that's true, shouldn't the appearance of this
 menu have also been blocked?

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