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when opening new tab, a new window opens instead; 2nd window does allow you to open new tab

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HelpMePlease808
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boot up firefox, click to open a new tab, a new window opens up instead; in the original window, if you keep clicking to open a new tab it opens it in the 2nd window.

boot up firefox, click to open a new tab, a new window opens up instead; in the original window, if you keep clicking to open a new tab it opens it in the 2nd window.

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philipp
philipp
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hello, can you try to replicate this behaviour when you launch firefox in safe mode once? if not, maybe an addon is interfering here...

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cor-el
cor-el
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Try to close all open windows and open a new window for the tabs.
If that doesn't help then quit Firefox after closing all windows and restart the Firefox application.

trngw
trngw
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I had this problem too, when I disabled the TextArea Cache add-on, the problem disappeared. I'm running firefox 20,0

cubasi
cubasi
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In my case I had to disable toolbar MozBar 2.3 (Firefox 20.0.1, WindowsXP).

firlalaith
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I'm having this problem, but I don't have the textarea cache add-on, nore the MozBar 2.3. Now that I think about, I did just update an add-on (imtranslator), maybe that's what causing this to happen for me..

edit: yep, disabling it fixed the problem for me.

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