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Toolbars disappear when accessing a site through a link

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In some non-specific cases, when I visit a page by clicking a link on another page or in an email, all of my toolbars and menu items disappear on the visited page in the newly opened window. I attached a screenshot. Normally, my pages include the menu, add-on, and bookmarks toolbars. There is no pattern do this behavior, so I can't identify possible causes. Thanks.

In some non-specific cases, when I visit a page by clicking a link on another page or in an email, all of my toolbars and menu items disappear on the visited page in the newly opened window. I attached a screenshot. Normally, my pages include the menu, add-on, and bookmarks toolbars. There is no pattern do this behavior, so I can't identify possible causes. Thanks.
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Sounds that you experience this bug that happens when you are running Firefox in Private Browsing mode and you open links in a new window.

  • bug 1166066 - Firefox 38 regression: link in private window with target="_blank" opens window with no tabs/toolbars/menus

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

Possible workarounds: (1) use Options/Preferences > General: "Open new windows in a new tab instead" (2) Shift+click links to open in a new window with the standard features or use the right-click context menu. You can modify dom.disable_window_open_feature prefs and change their value to true to prevent a website from disabling toolbars and scroll bars in a pop-up window

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cor-el
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Sounds that you experience this bug that happens when you are running Firefox in Private Browsing mode and you open links in a new window.

  • bug 1166066 - Firefox 38 regression: link in private window with target="_blank" opens window with no tabs/toolbars/menus

Please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

Possible workarounds: (1) use Options/Preferences > General: "Open new windows in a new tab instead" (2) Shift+click links to open in a new window with the standard features or use the right-click context menu. You can modify dom.disable_window_open_feature prefs and change their value to true to prevent a website from disabling toolbars and scroll bars in a pop-up window

jimmy59601
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I reconfigured a few of the prefs as in the screenshot, and it seems to work. Thanks very much!