295344 - Does not open link in new or same window, but opens link in new tab.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Hans Gatu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; sv-SE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; sv-SE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Clicking on a link does not open it. Neither in the same, nor in a new window.
But mostly (not allways though) it works to open it in a new tab. This problem
has occured after some time. At first everything worked fine. Maybe some
extension causes this. I have several extensions installed. Re-install (update)
on top of the existing Firefox does not help.
After closing the Firefox and then pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del to see the running
processes then Firefox is still there running.
I use Mozilla 1.7.8 on the same computer and Mozilla handles the links correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gabriel Chadwick]

This WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050524 Firefox/1.0+ . Could you please try with a new profile.
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

Comment 2

[Tristor]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050524
Firefox/1.0+

WFM, resolving per myself and comment #1.

<-WFM

Comment 3

[Hans Gatu]

It is not possible to try an other profile.

Using [Start] -> Run... -> firefox.exe -profilemanager
results in Firefox starting normally
i.e. just like using [Start] -> Run... -> firefox.exe

Using [Start] -> Run... -> "firefox.exe -profilemanager"
results in an error message.
Translating the Swedish error message to English should be something like:
'It is not possible to find firefox.exe -profilemanager (or one of its
components). Check the path and file name and that all necessary DLLs are present.'

Comment 4

[Gabriel Chadwick]

Try to get support here http://www.mozilla.org/support/

Comment 5

[Tristor]

(In reply to comment #3)
> It is not possible to try an other profile.
> 
> Using [Start] -> Run... -> firefox.exe -profilemanager
> results in Firefox starting normally
> i.e. just like using [Start] -> Run... -> firefox.exe
> 
> Using [Start] -> Run... -> "firefox.exe -profilemanager"
> results in an error message.
> Translating the Swedish error message to English should be something like:
> 'It is not possible to find firefox.exe -profilemanager (or one of its
> components). Check the path and file name and that all necessary DLLs are
present.'


That is because you are using the wrong switch.  It should be -Profilemanager. 
Capitalizing the P is important (case sensitive), IIRC.

Comment 6

[Hans Gatu]

OK. Now I can change profile.
The new profile works fine. No problems with the links.
But in the new profile is very few extensions installed though.