when opening a pdf outside firefox, the browser leaves behind a blank "New Tab"
When opening a pdf outside firefox, the browser leaves behind a blank "New Tab". I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled firefox and did not import any settings from internet explorer. I have changed the one setting: options/applications/"Portable Document Format (PDF)" set to "Use Adobe Acrobat (default). Now when i navigate to a website that downloads a pdf, the pdf opens in a new Adobe Acrobat window outside of Firefox however, a blank "New Tab" is left behind inside the Firefox browser. I didn't notice this behavior until 48.0.2. Internet Explorer does not exhibit this behavior. You notice the new blank tab briefly appear and then goes away. Is there a setting I'm missing?
All Replies (6)
is anyone looking into this?
apparently Mozilla doesn't see the value in replying to their support site. Very disappointed.
It's probably due to bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1301056
Can you type about:support in the location bar and paste here the line called "Multiprocess Windows".
Multiprocess Windows is set to: 1/1 (Enabled by default)
That bug does appear to be the one. is there any fix yet for it? Version: 49.0.2 Build ID: 20161019084923
Follow that Bug report to see when progress is made towards fixing it.
Doesn't appear to be a high priority since is is labeled as "polish".