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Links will not open

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Links in emails show as active, but when I click on it, it will refresh the current page but will not open a tab or display the new url. With a right click it will open a tab with the address listed but will not display content. I tried Safe Mode and uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox. No change

Links in emails show as active, but when I click on it, it will refresh the current page but will not open a tab or display the new url. With a right click it will open a tab with the address listed but will not display content. I tried Safe Mode and uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox. No change

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It's possible the link itself is bad. Right click and select Copy Link, and post it below. Also copy the sentence the link was on and post as well.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alfred-w-mccoy/grandmaster-of-the-great-game_b_8139828.html

I tried the link in IE11 and Chrome and it worked just fine. After I posted my question and while Firefox was open from the previous attempts it abruptly started to work. It now opens a new tab and loads the URL I didn't do anything to affect the change and the original problem has been there for weeks. So under the circumstances I don't appear to have a problem now and I will consider it closed

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Are you clicking the links in an external email application?

You can check the setting of the browser.link.open_newwindow.* prefs on the about:config page. You can override how external links are opened via the browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external pref. If this pref has the default value -1 then browser.link.open_newwindow is used. The meaning of the value of the browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external is the same as of browser.link.open_newwindow

To specify the behavior for links opened via JavaScript window.open() this pref is used: