Hi Deb, this is hard for me to test personally because I pinned the Firefox shortcut to the taskbar, which changes its behavior, and when I unpin it, I don't get my desktop icon back. (?!) Anyway, as a temporary workaround while we sort this out, you could use the "jump list": right-click the Firefox icon on the taskbar and choose "Open new window" which should definitely generate a separate window, and not just a new tab in the existing window. Does that work normally? Firefox has a hidden setting that you might try changing to see whether it makes any difference. Normally, when you open a link in another program, it opens in a new tab in the last Firefox window you used. Does yours do that? I'm going to suggest changing the setting so that the link must open in a new window to see whether that has any effect on this problem. (1) In a new tab, type or paste <strong>about:config</strong> and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful. (2) In the filter box, type or paste <strong>link.o</strong> and pause while the list is filtered. (3) Double-click the <strong>browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external</strong> preference and change its value to 2 and click OK. The possible values for this preference are as follows: -1 = follow your setting in Options for new tabs vs. new windows (<u>default</u>) 3 = open external links in a <u>new tab</u> in the last active window 2 = open external links in a <u>new window</u> 1 = open external links in the <u>last active tab</u> replacing the current page There are some other similarly named preferences, so make sure to change the one that has "external" in the name. Any difference?

Thanks. That seems to have taken care of my issue. Have a blessed day!