990046 - When I click on an .htm file, it and an extra blank tab appear.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140314220517

Steps to reproduce:

I click on an .htm file's entry or icon in Windows 8.1's folder displayer or my desktop.



Actual results:

The .htm file's contents display briefly. Then, within the second, one blank tab appears, and becomes the visible tab, and I must click it off to see the .htm file's display. I am using the latest download of Firefox. This started within the last week or so.



Expected results:

The .htm file's contents display.

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

This also happens when I click on an .htm file which not on the internet but in my computer.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

This persisted when I downloaded and installed the latest release of Firefox.

Comment 3

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

I can't reproduce, Firefox 28, Win 7 x64.

Please check if the issue occurs using Firefox in safe mode (with your addons disabled):
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

Or on a new, empty profile:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

"Please check if the issue occurs using Firefox in safe mode (with your addons disabled):
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode" :: If I do what it says there, the extra blank tab then does not appear. But it then appears the next time I click directly on an .htm file icon on my desktop.

Comment 5

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #4)
> But it then appears the next time I
> click directly on an .htm file icon on my desktop.
Try this on a new profile

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

Thanks, it worked.

But someone should have warned me to save my bookmarks! Luckily I found an old saved copy of my Firefox bookmarks from a few months ago, but I had to re-Google-search for a few of my recent bookmarks.

Comment 7

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

You can open FF with your old profile again, export your bookmarks, and then switch to the new profile.