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Why do tabs that require authentication move to a new window?

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I have startup set to "Show my windows and tabs from last time". Several of these tabs require authentication and once that authentication completes the tab is moved to a new window. This behavior only started recently. I have seen this happen on at least two different PCs.

I have startup set to "Show my windows and tabs from last time". Several of these tabs require authentication and once that authentication completes the tab is moved to a new window. This behavior only started recently. I have seen this happen on at least two different PCs.

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This seems to be fixed on it's own. Maybe an update fixed it. To answer you question cor-el, all of the pages are opened by clicking the + sign to open a new tab and this clicking a bookmark on the bookmark toolbar. As I stated above I keep several tabs open always and a couple require authentication. When closing firefox and then running it again, after authentication the tab moves to a new window.

Anyway thanks for the responses.

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Are you opening the pages initially in the main Firefox window or in another window?

If the latter is the case, then how did you open this window?

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This seems to be fixed on it's own. Maybe an update fixed it. To answer you question cor-el, all of the pages are opened by clicking the + sign to open a new tab and this clicking a bookmark on the bookmark toolbar. As I stated above I keep several tabs open always and a couple require authentication. When closing firefox and then running it again, after authentication the tab moves to a new window.

Anyway thanks for the responses.

Modified by RLuebbert