[PLUG] Resolved for now: Thunderbird or Firefox bug?

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Sat Mar 12 00:40:41 UTC 2016


On 03/11/2016 02:51 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> Up until today, when I clicked on a link from a Thunderbird email, my
> already running instance of Firefox would restore, and open the link in
> a new tab, per my Firefox preferences. Today, a new Firefox window
> opens, and remains behind the Thunderbird window. Has this happened to
> anyone else? How do I tell if it's Firefox behavior or Thunderbird
> behavior? My logic tells me it's Firefox, but I've learned not to bet on
> that. :-)

It appears that something went amiss in Firefox. I tried to open 
something in a new tab and saw nothing. I decided to restart Firefox and 
got a warning that I was about to close six tabs. I only saw one, and 
there were no other instances of Firefox showing on the desktop or task 
bar. After restarting Firefox, clicking on a link in Thunderbird 
correctly opened a new tab in Firefox. Right clicking a link on a web 
page correctly opened the link in a new tab.

So, I don't know what may have overloaded something in Firefox, but it 
appears to be working normally now.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens




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