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when I click on an article FF "closes" while it loads. I get my desktop with the FF icon in the status bar, when the page is loaded FF goes full screen again.

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This has been happening, with greater frequency since my last FF update. I sometimes get the blue spinning circle, sometimes not. Running Win 7 on a Dell Inspiron

This has been happening, with greater frequency since my last FF update. I sometimes get the blue spinning circle, sometimes not. Running Win 7 on a Dell Inspiron

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Thanks for the suggestion, I changed it to false-we shall see.

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Are the pages you are loading forcing Firefox to use full-screen mode? You can prevent that by changing a setting in about:config. full-screen-api.enabled - set to false That will prevent any page from being able to switch Firefox into full-screen mode.

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Thanks for the suggestion, I changed it to false-we shall see.

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