Firefox 4 new tab opens new windows instead

After upgrade to Firefox 4, the feature "mouserightclick-open new tab" opens a new window, instead.
From then on, all "open new tab" operations open new tabs in the other window, the second one created.

Thanks for the hint, cor-el , but problem persisted even with all Add-ons disabled.
But after some 8 days and several O.S. reboots, the problem disappeared .
No action was taken, I suppose that it was some bug that the developers corrected.
Issue solved.

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