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Can't get Firefox to come back up after minimizing?

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youngma71
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When I minimize Firefox, it will not come back up by clicking or double clicking the icon on the bottom of my Mac. This is new, as it was working before, but I am unsure of how to reset that function. The only way I can bring it back up now is to click on the "new tab" drop down menu under file at the top left portion of the screen. I would very much appreciate some instruction on how to reset this function. Thank you.

When I minimize Firefox, it will not come back up by clicking or double clicking the icon on the bottom of my Mac. This is new, as it was working before, but I am unsure of how to reset that function. The only way I can bring it back up now is to click on the "new tab" drop down menu under file at the top left portion of the screen. I would very much appreciate some instruction on how to reset this function. Thank you.

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guigs
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Hi youngma71, Firefox should not be able to prevent you from maximizing a minimized window. At least there is no obvious feature. What is interesting, this question was asked last week too. Is there a chance that you pressed Command+h to hide all the applications' windows. The shortcut to unhide all is Command+Tab to tab between applications. If you use the shortcuts does the window unminimize?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que.../987720

The other work around was that you can right click the minimized icon and select the window.