After viewing YouTube video full screen on secondary monitor, new windows always open secondary monitor *not* main monitor.
As the question. This is a problem that persists through restarts and reboots.
I've had this problem before in previous versions of Firefox, but could correct it by viewing a YouTube hosted video full-screen on the main monitor, close the window then restart FF, then new windows would once again open on the main monitor. Unfortunately this quick fix no longer appears to work.
I've tried disabling all add-ons and then restarting FF, but the same behaviour happens.
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.6 r602
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- 5.1.10411.0
Application
- Firefox 19.0
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
- Support URL: http://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/19.0/Darwin/en-US/
Extensions
- 1Password 3.9.9
- Adblock Plus 2.2.3
- Download Statusbar 0.9.10
- Troubleshooter 1.0a
- Bamboo Feed Reader 1.7.2 (Inactive)
- HTTPS-Everywhere 3.1.3 (Inactive)
- NoScript 2.6.5.8 (Inactive)
Javascript
- incrementalGCEnabled: True
Graphics
- adapterDescription:
- adapterDeviceID: 0x 8a0
- adapterDrivers:
- adapterRAM:
- adapterVendorID: 0x10de
- driverDate:
- driverVersion:
- info: {u'AzureContentBackend': u'none', u'AzureCanvasBackend': u'quartz', u'AzureFallbackCanvasBackend': u'none'}
- numAcceleratedWindows: 0
- numAcceleratedWindowsMessage: [u'']
- numTotalWindows: 1
- webglRenderer: NVIDIA Corporation -- NVIDIA GeForce 320M OpenGL Engine
- windowLayerManagerType: Basic
Modified Preferences
- accessibility.blockautorefresh: True
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
- browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
- browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 4
- browser.startup.homepage: http://www.google.co.uk/
- browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20130215130331
- browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 19.0
- browser.tabs.onTop: False
- dom.mozApps.used: True
- extensions.lastAppVersion: 19.0
- font.name.serif.x-western: Arial
- font.size.variable.x-western: 12
- gfx.blacklist.webgl.msaa: 4
- layers.acceleration.disabled: True
- network.cookie.cookieBehavior: 1
- network.cookie.lifetimePolicy: 2
- network.cookie.prefsMigrated: True
- places.database.lastMaintenance: 1362579997
- places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858
- places.history.expiration.transient_optimal_database_size: 167772160
- plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf
- privacy.cpd.offlineApps: True
- privacy.cpd.sessions: False
- privacy.donottrackheader.enabled: True
- privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: True
- privacy.sanitize.timeSpan: 0
- security.warn_viewing_mixed: False
Misc
- User JS: No
- Accessibility: No
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To Reset Firefox do the following:
- Go to Firefox > Help > Troubleshooting Information.
- Click the "Reset Firefox" button.
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You can check for problems with the localstore.rdf file.
Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
- Firefox > Preferences > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
You can check for problems with current Flash plugin versions and try these:
- disable protected mode in Flash 11.3 and later
- disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin