opening about:blank (fast dial) in new window + workaround
Smacked Wed, 03/03/2010 - 00:43
It seems like a rather rare bug (as far as I know), but on a
http://www.movies-links.tv/movies/blade_runner/
when trying to open any movie link, it opens in a new window, at the fast dial page. This may likely be because javascript links in general can interfere with fast dial.
Disabling the the fast dial addon nullifies the problem, and tweaking FF javascript controls seems to have no effect.
A simple workaround is to go to Tools -> Options, click 'Tabs', and checkmark the box titled 'Open new windows in a tab instead', and the correct pages load in a tab rather than a new window.
Anyone else having a similar problem, or is this just a complete newb topic anyways? I'm running FF3.6 in case anyone's wondering.
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Re: opening about:blank (fast dial) in new window + workaround
Submitted by chiaroscuro on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 02:29Thanks for your description.
Am getting a clearer picture now... :-)
It would seem that the film software is trying to open on the about:blank page for some reason.
and fast dial is jumping in.
It is useful to know about this behaviour thank you
It was clever of you to work out a fix, and thanks for sharing it here.
I am not able to reproduce your problem exactly as I do not have the software loaded to watch films, but I understand now clearer the problem.
many thanks
Re: opening about:blank (fast dial) in new window + workaround
Submitted by Smacked on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 02:40No problem. Thanks for the fast replies
Re: opening about:blank (fast dial) in new window + workaround
Submitted by chiaroscuro on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 13:28I wonder, maybe also changing the setting in Preferences/General to
Deselect
Open Fast Dial in Blank Tabs
might help in this situation...
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