Firefox won't open (in a new session) from email link. I have this issue on my Win 7 and XP computers.

If I open my email account (TBird) w/out opening Firefox, and then try to open a link from the email, Firefox will not open. I can't then go and open it from the desktop either. I used to go to Task Manager and close the .exe file," but MS has changed that so that I can't get into the "process" area. How do I fix this?

Although 6 other people seem to have encountered this problem, nobody has offered a solution yet. Perhaps the following will put some Firefox gurus on the right trail.
When I said "my search results", I meant the results obtained with Google (standard when installing Firefox). Now I have tried another search engine (Dogpile) and there The tabs do work. Very strange, isn't it ?

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I tried with the LAN options, it didn't help.
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Last edited by demian (2013-11-30 11:32:35)

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GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5.1
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/firefox...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) c
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from gobject import register
File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/gobject.py", line 3, in <module>
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Last edited by rezza (2013-02-12 11:13:14)

debijan wrote:try this:
firefox -P -no-remote -safe-mode
In order to test the problem, I think my suggestion is better; at least as a first try. Without Firefox running and without ~/.mozilla; no misconfiguration should prevent Firefox to run. The options you suggest will try to disable any problematic configuration. It can be usefull if you need to start Firefox to fix a configuration problem; but as a firt try renaming the ~/.mozilla is better because you are sure that Firefox can't read anything that can hurt it. Only after having figured out that a bad ~/.mozilla is the cause of the problem, we can try to fix the configuration (or restart with a new configuration).
Last edited by olive (2013-02-12 15:56:15)

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