Firefox Problem Relating to Tabs

So lately firefox has been making me really angry. I have the latest version and this is what it does.


Let's say I have 12 tabs open. And I'm on google in one of the tabs, then I click on a link, it *should* open in a new tab, but instead it decides to just open the page in any of my existing tabs making me lose the website that that tab was on.


This happens a lot and it's really tough when I'm uploading something to sendspace in one tab, and all of a sudden one of my links in some other tab, opens in the sendspace tab and I lose my transfer..


This also happens when I have multiple instances of Firefox running. It's like a guessing game to see which Firefox window it chooses to open a new tab/use an existing tab and go to the website.

Wow! I've never had that. How bizarre.

any extension installed ?

Tools -> Add-ons .. any listed there ??

follow the instructions here

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Firefox's own safe mode is a good way to find out if an extension/theme or user set preferences are causing your problem




follow the instructions in the article to see if that problem is still happening in firefox's own safe mode !

The addons I have installed are these

AdBlock Plus .7.5.2
Download Status Bar .9.5.1
FoxyTunes 2.9.5
OpenDownload 1.0.0
Tabs Open Relative 0.3

You know what, after you say check my add ons, it must be Tabs Open Relative making it act weird. I'm going to uninstall it and see if I continue to have strange problems.

Thanks!

It's a security issue.

The idea is to stop a web page opening multiple tabs/windows outside your control, so only one new tab/window is permitted.

Reinstalling doesn't help, and it is nothing to do with your add-ons.

What's really needed is an exceptions list to allow trusted sites to open multiple tabs/windows, but I haven't seen anything that will do this.

that seems odd. i can open 20 tabs off of one page and leave them all open no problem without this happening.

Yes, it is related to the way Google's links work.

If the link specifies "target=new", then you can have as many as you want.

Google links specify "target=nw", and that invokes the single new tab/window restriction.