When I have 4 or 5 tabs open, selecting one of them often forces that tab to open as a new window and close in the original window
FF 32.0.1. Moving between tabs that are already open, clicking on one which I have opened before forces it to close and open as a new window, which is a real pain. It seems to happen when I have 4 or 5 open tabs, rather than 2 or 3.
This has only been happening in the last week, after a clean Windows reinstall.
I've searched and found lots of people have problems with new windows opening when they just want a new tab, but this seems to be about opening fresh tabs rather than returning to one that's already open, so I can't find the same problem as I describe.
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This can happen if you drag a tab slightly down in the browser window while clicking.
Firefox has a feature called tear-off tabs You can detach a tab from the current window and open it in a new window by dragging a tab in the browser window. You can also do this via the right-click context menu of a tab: Move to New Window You can drag that tab back to the tab bar in the original window to undo that detaching.
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This can happen if you drag a tab slightly down in the browser window while clicking.
Firefox has a feature called tear-off tabs You can detach a tab from the current window and open it in a new window by dragging a tab in the browser window. You can also do this via the right-click context menu of a tab: Move to New Window You can drag that tab back to the tab bar in the original window to undo that detaching.
Thanks, I am now able to put them back. I wasn't aware that I might have been dragging them when reopening, will do it carefully to make sure, and otherwise disable the feature.
Thanks.