So if you are looking at one tab in Firefox (in the active window) and you press Ctrl+N to open a new window, instead of Firefox opening a separate window and making it the active window, a second tab appears on the tab bar of the original active window? Or nothing happens at all?

It just opens another tab. The sme with Chrome. Just antoher tab.

/everthing is a damn tab. all tabs. i hit ctr n and another tab i looked at the history and it even says tab tab for this tab for that.

what could possibly cause this?

This is a nightmare. i accdently closed this tab and lost it and i could not find my question. there has to be a better way. nobody is offering a solutoin to this problem. i downloqaded opera, i hqave had it with these two there is no way to get help. this is a problem for me. who can use a browser that lags because it won't open a window?

I can't think of any built-in feature that would cause the problem.

When you hover your mouse pointer over the Firefox icon on the Windows Taskbar, does the pop-up list only show one window?

What if you check Firefox View? Either:

• click the file drawer icon at the left end of the tab bar
• type or paste about:firefoxview in the address bar and press Enter to open it

Then in the left column, click "Open Tabs" to show a diagram of open windows and tabs.

i accdently closed this tab and lost it and i could not find my question

Try Ctrl+Shift+T (reopen last closed tab) or the History menu > Recently Closed Tabs.

No hovering doesn't show anything, but if i click it it will show a list of options to open new window, new tab and of other sites i have visited. I try to click open window which is what i usually did but realizingnow it is all tabs and why so hard to search online. It is even worse in Chrome. I downloaded Opera maybe a new younger fresher browser will be more simpler as I think these older ones get jammed up with all the things they try to be and do. I don't see too many rushing to help so this must be some really weird problem. thanks for your help. I hope someone can figure it out.

If you right-click the second tab and then

Move Tab > Move Tab to New Window

does Firefox detach that second tab to a new window?