Firefox immediately switching to new tab even when that feature is disabled on right-click>open in new tab or on ctrl+click a link. Please help.
Firefox switches immediately to new tab or the immediate next tab if multiple tabs are open, even when the respective feature is disabled, whenever I open a link by -
1. Right-click > open in new tab 2. Ctrl + click a link
Earlier it did not happen like this. It is really very annoying. Re-installation and clean installation of the latest version did not helped.
And this is happening mainly when I am using Facebook. Earlier it never happened so with Facebook.
Ilungisiwe ngu Vishal
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If it only happens on Facebook then you need to check if a Facebook gadget is causing your problem.
I assume that you already looked at;
Tools > Options > Tabs:[ ] "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately"
Does it help if you press and hold Shift and middle-click or Ctrl left-click a link?
Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
- Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See:
I found that an add-on called DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 caused the problem... I disabled all add-ons and turned them back on one at a time until I found the problem :)
Thanks a lot. I have disabled the DivX addons and now its solved.
I don't have the divX plug-in and I still have this problem. Why should plug-ins that are not even triggered by the affected pages alter Firefox's behavior. Feels like bad architecture.
I was having this problem (every time I opened Firefox, multiple tabs of Facebook kept opening, even when I was on other websites such as Google).
Having restarted Firefox with add-ons disabled (via Help in the Firefox menu), I enabled first the Plugins and then the Extensions, on-by-one.
The problem only recurred when I enabled Facebook Toolbar 1.7.3 and vanished when I disabled it again.
This extension was last updated on 3rd August, 2011, which is probably when the problem began to manifest (growing steadily worse). The extension tries to integrate certain Facebook utilities with the browser but this is something I can easily live without. If you are having similar problems, try disabling Facebook Toolbar 1.7.3
I have the same problem and it seems to be caused by Tab Utilities. Although I had set the Right-Click settings to default from its options, the result seems to be the same as if it's stuck to the 'Right-click functions as middle-click' setup. Funny thing is that I run two profiles of Firefox and the other one doesn't seem to have that problem.