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why does open a window tab not work

AnonymousUser
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When you click on the open a new window tab nothing happens. However when you choose new window from the File drop down menu it does work.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== not sure

When you click on the open a new window tab nothing happens. However when you choose new window from the File drop down menu it does work. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == not sure

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AnonymousUser
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I forgot to say that if you click the open new window button when you close Firefox it will not restart until you close it through the task manager processes window.