Opening a new tab actually opens a new window

I updated Firefox to 29 a few hours ago, and it cause a lot of problems. I just rolled back to ffx 28, but it didn't resolve everything. One thing that happened is that when I open a new tab, at the top it looks like a second tab, but when you look down at the tool tray, you see that there are actually two ffx windows open. If you mouseover the ffx icon (I'm in Windows 7), the two windows pop up. This didn't happen 6 hours ago. It came with ffx 29, but didn't go away with downgrading to 28. This is really annoying. I'd prefer to have tabs grouped within windows. Mostly I have one window open with all my tabs in it, but other times I want to have several tabs in each of several different windows, because that organization works for me. How can I get rid of this?

Too many to list. I don't even remember all the problems I had to deal with. I spent ~3-4 hours trying to get ffx 29 the way I wanted, and half of the things suggested made problems worse or created new problems. The multiple tabs / windows thing was one; another was that I couldn't get the buttons I wanted arranged the way I wanted; another was that I couldn't get the addresses of hyperlinks I mousedover to show up in the status bar (or anywhere); another was that the statusbar itself disappeared w/ ffx 29 & uninstalling / reinstalling the Status-4-Evar extention didn't bring it back (I ultimately had to do the reset ffx trick & start everything over from scratch); another was that I couldn't get the "File Edit ..." to show up & stay (I learned that hitting F10 made it appear, but as soon as I did anything, it would disappear again). I honestly don't remember all of the problems I had, but I couldn't resolve them with several hours of Googling & frustration, and it seemed like everything was problematic. Thanks again.

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I've been experimenting with Safari recently. One of my primary uses of a browser is to run an application -- yes, run an application -- known as TiddlyWiki. TiddlyWiki is described as "a reusable non-linear personal web notebook," but it is actually much more. Being a non-techie user it's hard for me to describe what it is, and I couldn't begin to describe the many different ways people have put it to use.
If you're not familiar with it and are curious, this is the place to start:
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ You can learn more about it here: http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Main_Page And though it's a bit dated now, you can see examples of some of the things people have done with it here: http://giffmex.tiddlyspot.com/
All that by way of an unfortunately but necessarily complicated lead-in to my question. I usually have several TiddlyWikis running in my browser at once. With Firefox all were accessible by tabs from within a single window. Unfortunately, it appears Safari won't let me do this. It opens each new instance in a separate window, so that all the others are hidden behind the one in the current window. Not very convenient.
So, my simple question: If you have the faintest idea what I'm talking about, is there any way I can force Safari to open each instance of TiddlyWiki under a new tab in the same window?
I appreciate Safari's speed, and the relative cleanliness of its interface. However, and perhaps this is just being stuck in my ways from Firefox, I really don't like the way it handles tabs. I'd like to have the open of telling it to open each new link, application, whatever, in a new tab in the same window.
I have a suspicion I'm not going to get what I want, but I thought I would give it a try and see. Thanks for putting up with my long-winded vaguery, and if you should have any suggestions, thanks for them, too.
Sincerely,
Eric Weir

LPZ wrote:
I misunderstood. You want Safari to open files on your hard drive in tabs in your already open Safari window.
For simplicity, let's assume all the local files are located on your Desktop, and that your home folder is named Eric. Let's assume one of the local files is called foo.html.
Then you should be able to type in the URL
file:///Users/Eric/Desktop/foo.html
and the file should load. Click the + sign and add that URL as a bookmark on your Bookmarks Bar. Then you should be able to command-click that bookmark to open the file in a new tab instead of a new window. You could then do the same for all the local files, and then put all the bookmarks in a folder on your Bookmarks Bar.
Neat. It never would've occurred to me. I'll check it out.
Sincerely,
Eric Weir
P.S. Again, the thread got designated as "solved" before I had a chance to give you credit for being helpful, which I had intended to do.
Message was edited by: EricWeir

When I open a new tab it opens in the wrong window

I have 3 or 4 windows containing lots of relevant tabs open at all times. Helps me organize my work stuff. All of a sudden today if I try to open a new tab in one window it opens in another window. Incredibly irritating and will be a huge problem when I'm back to work tomorrow morning. Can anybody help?

You may be working in a ''dialog window''.
Starting in Firefox 4, it is intended behavior that a dialog window not be able to have new tabs. However, the developers may have applied this principle to too many styles of windows merely because the window is "small."
To open a new "normal" window, you can press Ctrl+n or use File > New Window.
A bug already has been filed (many, actually) complaining about this change, and suggesting some tweaks to this feature so that it only affects popups which were truly intended to behave like dialogs.
Current functionality: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606678 Bug 606678 "Open Link in New Tab" shouldn't add tabs to popups]
Requested change: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644729 Bug 644729 – Popup window with all toolbars visible causes new tabs to open in another browser window]
Because posts on a bug get sent to everyone on a long mailing list, it is considered poor etiquette (spamming) to add "me too" comments to a bug. However, you can "vote" for a bug to get fixed, so it might be worth registering on Bugzilla to do that if you are affected by this on a day-to-day basis.
As a temporary workaround, I created a Greasemonkey userscript. It adds a button to pages detected to be in a dialog window so you can reload them in a regular window. As a 0.1 version it's not perfect, but if you run into this problem frequently, hopefully it will help.
[http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/101728 Dialog To Normal Window on userscripts.org] (requires the Greasemonkey add-on)

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yah, i have same issue here on 3.6.3
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A new tab is opening when I click anything on a page. Options that should open within the same window are opening in a new tab. How do I fix this?

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This issue can be caused by an extension that isn't working properly.
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do not click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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Say I open a YouTube video, it works fine until I open a new tab or open a new instance of Firefox. Flash will then crash.
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This has only happened as of today.

hello, you may have adware present on your system. please try these steps:
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Minefield just would not open pages, whatever I tries to type in the addressbar the URL just stayed there and nothing happened. Even if I opened a new tab and put a new url again it did not even start loading the page. This is happening since the last upd

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== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== today ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; rv:2.0b3pre) Gecko/20100728 Minefield/4.0b3pre ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)

Create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems
See [[Basic Troubleshooting|#Make_a_new_profile|Basic Troubleshooting: Make a new profile]]
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If that new profile works then you can transfer some files from the old profile to that new profile (be careful not to copy corrupted files)
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser_will_not_start_up
You can discuss issues with Namoroka 3.6 and Minefield 4.0 nightly and alpha/beta builds at the MozillaZine Firefox Builds forum.
That forum is better suited to discuss such issues.
You need to register on the MozillaZine forum site in order to post at that forum.
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Every time I try to open a new tab, it open a whole new window and i am ending up with 6 or 7 unmanagable things, please help.

every time I try to open a new tab, it opens a whole new window, which makes what I use firefox for completely unmanagable. I also updated it the other day and all the changes I made are gone!
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== this evening

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
See [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]] and [[Troubleshooting plugins]]
If it does work in Safe-mode then disable all your extensions and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one at a time until the problem reappears.
You can use "Disable all add-ons" on the [[Safe mode]] start window to disable all extensions.
You have to close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")

Unable to close tabs after a new tab is opened automatically and suddenly

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Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of the add-ons is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
* Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
See:
* [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]

How do I get my new tab to open to google search?

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Actually it does.
A new tab opens by default as a blank tab (about:blank).
If that wasn't the case then an extension has changed that behavior and you probably did disable that extension.
You need another extension if you want a new tab to open with a specific page.
You can use an extension to set which page to open in a new tab:
*NewTabURL : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/newtaburl/
*My Homepage: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/my-homepage/
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How do i get a new tab to open up with my home page after i click on the + at the end of the tab

how do i get a new tab to open up with my home page after i click on the + at the end of the tab

problem solved thak you Andy.c that was too easy and a fast reply i'm abit of an iliterate with these things

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* New Tab Homepage - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/new-tab-homepage/

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*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

When I attempt to open a new tab by clicking the "new tab" button on the tabs bar, the tab will not open. Can this be fixed and how?

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The Ask Toolbar is causing that in the Firefox 3.6.13 version. Disable that extension or un-install it.

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(1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
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(3) Double-click the '''browser.newtab.url''' preference and change from the default (about:newtab) to '''about:blank'''.
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Opening a new tab actually opens a new window

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