336274 - New Window doesn't open

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Kelem]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

I cannot open a second window, whether I type control-n or click on File/New Window.  Nothing happens when I try.  I can open multiple tabs.
Come to think of it, javascript popups don't do anything either, even if I don't disallow popups.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on File/New Window...wait...
2. Try control-n...this doesn't work either
3. 

Actual Results:  
No new window is opened.

Expected Results:  
A new window.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Have you tried Firefox's safe-mode?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)

Comment 2

[Steve Kelem]

I raised the severity of this to critical.  I'm unable to use my financial sites because they open up secondary windows for many functions.  These windows won't open up, even if popup blocking is turned off.

The same behavior happens in safe-mode.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Then probably a new profile or a reinstallation in a new clean directory will solve this.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 4

[Steve Kelem]

The problem was that I untarred the new release on top of the old directory.
I blew away the old directory, untarred, and now it works.  (I hope there was nothing that I needed to keep around!)

Comment 5

[milbern]

I have the same problem.  
It started as soon as I downloaded the latest version of Firefox, 1.5.0.4.  If I either type Command N or go through the File menu with New Window, the spinning timewheel appears and then eventually goes away.  I did not have this problem with any previous version of Firefox.  Just to check I redownloaded 1.5.0.4 three times.  Each time the fault remains.  I can have a dozen tabs open in the single window but that's it.  No error message, no crash, nothing.  I didn't realise how much I use multiple windows with multiple tabs.