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I'm having problems opening various windows in Firefox. Eg. Downloads, View Source, History etc.

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For quite some time I have been having some issues with Firefox 5.0.1.

I have been through all of the troubleshooting I can find but cannot fix the problem.

Most of the features that require a window to be opened in Firefox do not work. Eg. Downloads, View Source, History. I cannot see the windows.

For quite some time I have been having some issues with Firefox 5.0.1. I have been through all of the troubleshooting I can find but cannot fix the problem. Most of the features that require a window to be opened in Firefox do not work. Eg. Downloads, View Source, History. I cannot see the windows.

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cor-el
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Try:

refinery
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I tried the localstore.rdf replacement from another machine running the same version of Firefox. Still didn't fix the issue.

I noticed on the machine that I was having the issue with there was a file present called localstore-safe.rdf, this file was not present on the machine where Firefox was functioning normally. I removed localstore-safe.rdf (made a copy of the profiles folder first) and it works.

cor-el
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If you use a setup with more than one monitor then drag the Firefox window to the first monitor to see if that helps.