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Hierdie gesprek is in die argief. Vra asseblief 'n nuwe vraag as jy hulp nodig het.

How do I break the linkage between different windows?

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Saintonge
Saintonge
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I can NOT imagine what someone was thinking, but now if I suppress the Menu bar, or the bookmarks toolbar in one window, every other open browser window loses them as well. This is not acceptable. How do I change back to 'what you do in one window has no effect on any other window'?

I can NOT imagine what someone was thinking, but now if I suppress the Menu bar, or the bookmarks toolbar in one window, every other open browser window loses them as well. This is not acceptable. How do I change back to 'what you do in one window has no effect on any other window'?

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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That's always been the case in Firefox. Keep in mind that webpages that suppress or hide toolbars are a different situation; there is code which can be used to display only the toolbars that the web developer wants viewers of his pages to see.

Slightly off-topic.
Firefox users can set these preferences to prohibit webpages from suppressing toolbars from being displayed. 

user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.directories", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.personalbar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.scrollbars", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar", true); text text
Saintonge
Saintonge Vraag-eienaar
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No, it has NOT always been that way. The way it used to be was that if I had multiple Firefox windows open, and I unchecked "Menu Bar" or "Bookmarks Toolbar" in one window, the other windows then open weren't affected. Does anyone know how to restore that state?

meegja
meegja
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No solution but I can confirm that with Firefox 28 a change at one open Firefox window (for example hide the menu-bar) is not changed in another open Firefox window (menu-bar is still there).

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Sorry if I was mistaken about that being changed in Firefox 29, I typically have multiple Profiles running and don't usually have multiple windows of the same process opened up.