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extra browser window

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ginocroc
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When I click a link for Firefox to get a URL in email (Thunderbird) or a document, under the requested page's window, I get an extra, blank browser window. Firefox was running already. It may also have happened when Firefox was called to open by the link.

When I click a link for Firefox to get a URL in email (Thunderbird) or a document, under the requested page's window, I get an extra, blank browser window. Firefox was running already. It may also have happened when Firefox was called to open by the link.

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cor-el
cor-el
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This is a bug on Mac.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531552 - Firefox 3.6b opens two windows when opening external links

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