Getting P O at Firefox 3.5.2 !!

[Guested Account]

I upgraded to Firefox 3.5.2 from Firefox 3.0 about 10 days ago and it's been pissing me off ever since!!

I've been using Firefox for a couple of years now and this has never happened!!

What is it doing, you ask?

1. Tab Browsing: I click on one of the many Tabs I have open on top to go from one website to another. LEFT CLICK, which is NORMAL PROCEDURE.

Well sometime it works fine and sometime after I click on the tab and it's in the middle of switching from the TAB I am currently viewing to that TAB, what does it do?

It opens the TAB in a New Firefox Window!!

2. Scrolling within a website - I am looking at a webpage like Movie-List, reading a thread and scrolling down using the scroll wheel on my mouse. Well, I am scrolling down and BOOM, the page jumps and reopens into a New Firefox Window.

At first I thought maybe I push down on the scroll wheel by accident while Scrolling but I even tried scrolling real real slow with very little pressure on the scroll wheel but it still does it!!

3. Messing up while posting a thread, replying to a thread, typing an email, anything involving entering text and information.

I have finished typing a reply to a thread, I click the SUBMIT button and BOOM, it takes that POSTING NEW THREAD or REPLY TO THREAD page and reopens it into a New Firefox Window;

well guess why is that Bad? Because the new page is blank!! Everything I typed is gone and the thread wasn't submitted to the Movie-List server!!

It also did the same thing while I was typing an email in my Yahoo Email and Google Mail;

I finished typing and click Send and BOOM AGAIN!! It reopens the whole thing into a New Firefox Window and I get a blank Yahoo or Google Mail E-Mail Entry Page!!

So I have to retype everything over!!

Why is this new Firefox doing that?

Edited September 7, 2009 by J7Dadda

[Guested Account]

I filed a bug report with Mozilla and it seems to be I am not the only one experiencing this bug.

There is an ADD ON supposedly that can be Downloaded and Installed to remove this annoyance but I think it should be a feature that should be able to be turned off without downloading anything.

What if one decides to use it, then they have to uninstall the ADD-ON and when they decide they don't want it anymore, they have to reinstall the ADD-ON!!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489729

[Shrensh]

Firefox 3.5 has a new feature where if you grab a tab from the tab bar and drag it down, it opens that tab in a new window. Apparently this is causing a few bugs, so it may be what's causing your troubles. You can try this add-on to disable it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12276

[Guested Account]

thank you Shrenshy!!

hope it works and it doesn't cause other problems:

[AngelR]

We upgraded too, and since then we have an intermittent problem that pages stop loading and we have to restart the computer to be able to log back on to firefox.

[Mike]

AngelR, what bout if you just restart Firefox? Make sure it completely closes in Task Manger. That usually works for me, and it saves time by restarting the whole OS.

:-)

[D.drult]

Okay usually i hardly ever get spam but for about a week now ive been getting like 10-15 a day. I dont think ive signed up to any dodgy site lately. Is there anything i can do to make it stop?