Firefox opens two browser windows when I click on a saved URL that I keep on my OSX 10.6.4 desktop
Issue
I have another kind of problem with Firefox
Description
Whenever I click on a saved URL on my MBP OSX 10.6.4 desktop, Firefox opens two browser windows. I have tried every combination of settings under Firefox ->Preferences ->tabs - nothing stops this behavior
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
Immediately after installing Firefox on my Macbook Pro w/ OSX 10.6.4
Troubleshooting information
accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar 0 browser.history_expire_days.mirror 180 browser.places.importBookmarksHTML false browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion 2 browser.startup.homepage http://news.google.com/ browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone rv:1.9.2.7 browser.tabs.loadInBackground false dom.disable_open_during_load false extensions.lastAppVersion 3.6.7 network.cookie.prefsMigrated true places.last_vacuum 1279749966 print.macosx.pagesetup-2 PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4KPCFET0NUWVBFIHBsaXN0IFBVQkxJQyAiLS8vQXBwbGUvL0RURCBQTElTVCAxLjAvL0VO… print.print_bgcolor false print.print_bgimages false print.print_command print.print_downloadfonts false print.print_evenpages true print.print_in_color true print.print_margin_bottom 0.5 print.print_margin_left 0.5 print.print_margin_right 0.5 print.print_margin_top 0.5 print.print_oddpages true print.print_orientation 0 print.print_pagedelay 500 print.print_paper_data 0 print.print_paper_height 11.00 print.print_paper_size_type 1 print.print_paper_size_unit 0 print.print_paper_width 8.50 print.print_printer print.print_reversed false print.print_scaling 1.00 print.print_shrink_to_fit true print.print_to_file false print.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom 56 print.print_unwriteable_margin_left 25 print.print_unwriteable_margin_right 25 print.print_unwriteable_margin_top 25 privacy.cpd.siteSettings true privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs true security.warn_viewing_mixed false
Firefox version
3.6.7
Operating system
Intel Mac OS X 10.6
User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7
Plugins installed
- -Gecko default plugin
- Runs Java applets using the latest installed versions of Java. For more information: Java Embedding Plugin. Run version test: Java Information.
- The Flip4Mac WMV Plugin allows you to view Windows Media content using QuickTime.
- iPhoto6
- Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
Chosen solution
It's a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531552 - Firefox 3.6b opens two windows when opening external links
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Suluhisho teule
It's a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531552 - Firefox 3.6b opens two windows when opening external links
(please do not comment in bug reports)
unbelievable: filed in Nov. 2009, still not solved.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531552
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/747840
It is time for s.b. out there to really (I mean really) feel embarrassed, absolutely regardless of the fact that FF is a free product.