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Firefox 5/6 — No New Windows!

July 21, 2011 by Sonja Ray 7 Comments

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I have Firefox 5 and Firefox 6 installed on my Mac. Nice browser, still my favorite, but it’s got a bug that’s making me batty!

If I have the focused Firefox window on my secondary monitor, I can’t open a new window. I also can’t do anything that would normally result in a new window, such as “View Source” or see “HTTP Live Headers” or open Firebug in a new window.

I have to drag the window over to my primary monitor, get the new window launched, then drag the other window back over to the second monitor.

Firefox, I love ya, but you gotta do windows better!

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  1. Web Design Southampton says

    October 13, 2011 at 8:39 am

    With the new major release dev cycle, i’m pretty sure this has been cleared up with Firefox 7:
    getfirefox.com

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  2. Filmari Nunti says

    October 17, 2011 at 1:14 pm

    I like Firefox too and in windows xp its seems to work very well.

    I`m sorry you have this problem. Hopefully they will fix this bug.

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  3. Yeshua says

    November 22, 2011 at 7:19 pm

    Just like Sonja, I love Firefox over the other browsers choices, but I do get a little crazy over 1 little bug… when click on a link to open a URL in a new tab, if that URL no longer exists my whole browser freezes up momentarily, even if I try to close the tab. However, the benefits of Firebox outweigh this minor annoyance that I patiently await to see fixed in one of the not too distant future releases.

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  4. Sonja says

    December 5, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    I upgraded one of my Firefox installations to the 9.0 beta release. It can now open new windows on my secondary monitor (yay!) — but there’s another bug that is present in all of my Firefox versions: I can’t use the image uploader in WordPress to upload images. I have to use Safari or Opera or some other browser to upload images, because Firefox crashes on that. Regardless of whether I’m using their fancy-schmancy new Flash uploader or the old-style browser uploader.

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  5. Danny Maddox says

    March 27, 2012 at 1:16 pm

    A little late to the party!

    I solved this by opening an new tab in the secondary monitor and dragging it to the primary monitor. Still a pain in the a**.

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  6. SteveJohnson says

    March 31, 2012 at 7:36 am

    My Firefox versions: I can’t use the image uploader in WordPress to upload images. I have to use Safari or Opera or some other browser to upload images, because Firefox crashes on that.

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  7. Nikolay says

    April 2, 2012 at 2:12 am

    Hey, are you guys using the new Firefox 11? Do you see improvements in the memory issue? I heard that they finally started to work on these things. I mean it is the biggest downside to Firefox. Even with super fast computer, if you use Firefox for a long time (half a day) it starts to lag. I am closing it once in a while so this does not happens.

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