Problem with firefox opening new windows

Kelly lightsolphoenix at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 06:22:50 UTC 2007


On Sunday, April 01, 2007 1:34 am Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 09:13 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote:
> > Occasionally, if I left click on a link, instead of FF opening the
> > link in the current window, it will open a new window maybe 75% of the
> > size and open the link there. This window has no decoration other than
> > a titlebar. The "main" FF window acts like a program that is hung
> > somewhat.
>
> That sort of thing is usually down to user-un-friendly webmasters doing
> annoying things in their authoring.

No, it's definitely a bug related to Fedora's patching of Firefox.  I was 
getting the same thing, but only with the Fedora package version of Firefox; 
when I installed the official version from mozilla.com, the problem went 
away.  It's definitely something that Firefox is doing, because most of the 
links I hit it with didn't have target or javascript information at all; they 
were generic links, which should open up in the same tab.

> That shouldn't happen, I'd report that as a bug.  Just for curiosity's
> sake, do you get the same thing happening if you close this extra window
> when using the ALT & F4 hotkeys to close a window?  (Make sure the right
> window is active, first.)

Yeah, I hit the same problem.  According to KDE, there is only ONE Firefox 
window (the odd one it spawns is simply has the "no character" character in 
the titlebar), and trying to close it causes Firefox to close.  If I hit any 
link in the window, it goes away and Firefox acts as if no new window was 
opened.

Here's an odd one for you; I was using Session Saver, and when I restored my 
session, the spawned window was included in Firefox's history as if the 
window was not spawned...


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