firefox opens a new page 2/3 on top of another page which I can't close
When I open firefox a page from yesterday opens with a new page covering the left two thirds of the page and the old page remains on the left one third on subsequent tabs
Chosen solution
by cor-elOpening in the side bar is the default for bookmarks that are created via a link or button on a website.
You can check the Properties of a bookmark via the right-click context menu in the side bar (Ctrl+B; Cmd+B on Mac).
In the Bookmarks Manager (Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks) you can click the More button in the Details pane at the bottom right.
Make sure that "Load this bookmark in the side bar" is not selected.
Additional System Details
This happened
Every time Firefox opened
This started when...
yesterday
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102
- RealJukebox Netscape Plugin
- RealPlayer(tm) HTML5VideoShim Plug-In
- RealPlayer(tm) LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In
- 15.0.0.198
- 4.0.60831.0
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 8.3.1
- Picasa plugin
- BlackBerry WebSL Browser Plug-In
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime web site.
- Rhapsody Player Engine Plugin
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 AskTbAD3/3.9.1.14019 Firefox/3.6.16 GTB7.1 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C) FBSMTWB
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Chosen Solution
Opening in the side bar is the default for bookmarks that are created via a link or button on a website.
You can check the Properties of a bookmark via the right-click context menu in the side bar (Ctrl+B; Cmd+B on Mac).
In the Bookmarks Manager (Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks) you can click the More button in the Details pane at the bottom right.
Make sure that "Load this bookmark in the side bar" is not selected.