Red Hat / Fedora :: Firefox Continuously Opens Windows?
Jan 28, 2010
Truthfully, I don't know if this is a Firefox bug or not, but I've only experienced this on my Fedora machine.
There doesn't seem to be any particular pattern, and it's happened in trusted sites when clicking on various links (like this one for instance), but Firefox will suddenly go mad and just start opening window after window.
The only way I can get out of it is 'ps -ef' 'ing for the firefox process and killing it.
This has happened under both 10 and 12.
Submitted a forum post on mozilla's support site here: Firefox Opens 'Infinite' Windows During a Session
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Oct 14, 2010
I use Ubuntu 10.04.1. When i write to terminal "sudo firefox" it opens the firefox with the default users config settings. But when i write "sudo nautilus" it open the nautilus with new config settings. This means there is a problem on my system ? (when i open the firefox with "gksudo", it is using as new user (root user's) config files but nautilus is opening with the root user's files also with "sudo").
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Mar 26, 2011
I have a win7 laptop and installed a dual-boot ubuntu 10.10. I'm using firefox & thunderbird, shared between windows and ubuntu (default profiles are on a fat32 disk that is shared between the two OSs). I can mount the fat32 disk as usual, but I can't get firefox OR thunderbird to start unless I start them from a terminal using 'sudo'. This is kinda strange. I used to do this all the time and never had a problem before.
I installed firefox, then did:
cd /etc/firefox
sudo firefox -P
in the profile manager, I set the profile file etc, but when I open firefox without doing 'sudo firefox', it hangs up and cannot find the profile. Why do I have to use 'sudo' to open firefox or thunderbird?
It works fine on my other laptop, but I've deleted & reinstalled ubuntu 3 times on this laptop and still have the same problem.
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Mar 27, 2011
I got the mozilla FF4, extracted, copied to /usr/lib/firefox, changed the old one to /usr/lib/firefox-3 (I had the 3.03 or something like it) Now,I just can make it work... but just as root! If I am in Konqueror, super user, and click over the firefox it opens Firefox 4, as root. If I open another X, as root, I just need to click the old firefox icon and it opens. As user, there is no way I compared the files from /usr/lib/firefox, the new ones with the old ones in /usr/lib/firefox-3, and the permissions are THE SAME. I even tried to replace the firefox and the run-mozilla.sh, the only difference is that then I can get the update window to appear, but it does nothing and just crash. I didn't touched the /usr/bin/firefox, since it just point to the /usr/lib, and in fact, since it is working as root, in user space and in root KDE,it is OK. I tries first,of course, to get a slack one, but at linuxpackages there is only the FF4 for the newest slacks.
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Aug 21, 2010
FireFox opens but goes no where in openSIUSE 11.2 64bit. output of installed
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Mar 7, 2010
When I open 'firefox' from the app panel at the top of the screen, it opens on the last web site visited.
I've looked every place I can think to tell it to open in a blank screen. My preferences are set to blank. Right click on the icon > properties shows 'firefox %u'.
Is there something in 'about:config' that would control this and what do I search for?
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Nov 16, 2010
all my text files are opened with firefox how can I change that.
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May 25, 2010
Using an online language course, there are links to hear the words and phrases pronounced.If I click these links, a media player opens in the browser (firefox), but after a few seconds Ubuntu crashes.
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May 1, 2011
I'm running Kubuntu 10.10 with Firefox 4.0.1. from the firefox ppa. If I want to open the folder of a downloaded file with the right-mouse-button menu, kid3-qt is opened and shows the folder. I already tried the following: Removed kid3-qt -> Dolphin opens the folder, kid3-qt reinstalled leads to the same behaviour as before Reinstalled Firefox -> no change Removed the .mozilla dir to create a new profile -> no change mimeapps.list in ~/.local/share/applications looks like this:
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[Added Associations]
application/pdf=kde4-okular.desktop;
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet=wine-Programs-Microsoft Office-Microsoft Office Excel 2007.desktop;
application/x-wine-extension-ini=kate-2.desktop;
application/x-wine-extension-mas=kate-2.desktop;
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Mar 18, 2010
Firefox closes shortly after web site Java applet opens
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Jul 27, 2010
Since I upgraded to Firefox 3.6.8, when I click on a link in Thunderbird 3.1.1, nothing happens!! Right-clicking on a link and selecting "Open Link in Browser" does not work either. Any idea what might be the cause of this annoying problem?
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Mar 17, 2010
Sometimes in BBC iPlayer - Bigscreen the fullscreen video does not open on top, and then none of the lirc remote control commands (irxevent) function, not even Escape (nor Alt-TAB, which would bring the fullscreen on top if I used the keyboard - but sitting in the TV couch I would prefer using the remote only).
This often happens on my SuSE 10.2 partition, especially when wanting to resume a video, but never happens on my Kubuntu 9.10 partition. Both are 32-bit using KDE 4.3.5 Firefox 3.5.8 and Adobe Flash 10,0,45,2.
How can I get the fullscreen on top??
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Jan 26, 2010
When I go to play a file using VLC 1.0.4-1fc12 on fedora 12 I get 2 windows that open and display the same video. One window has the play button and such, the other doesn't. How can I get rid of one of these windows?
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Aug 22, 2010
I have installed fedora 13 , 86_64. and was working fine until now. The problem was that JEXEC service Froze while booting. So I removed it /etc/init.d. The next time when I booted ATD service Froze, so I removed it by the same way. Next it was the turn of CROND followed by KSM , KSMTUNED. Then came ABRT-DAEMON which I had to type a #yum erase abrt* command. Finally it came to the turn of SM-CLIENT. I don't know where it is or what it is. Didn't find quality posts on the internet. What the heck should I do and I dont want to do a reinstall.
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Feb 16, 2011
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and i can browse our network's windows xp shared folders properly using nautilus. The problem is if i double click a file on the network shared folder, (ie. a .doc file) its opened by file-roller and not Openoffice writer. i've tried changing open with in properties to ooo writer but it still opens with file roller. What can I do to open a file properly on the windows shared folder.
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Dec 6, 2009
i am afraid that some one palying in my fedora 12 system , " hacked " first i got this message when i log to my broadband internet provider
Quote: You have asked Firefox to connect securely to ******, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure. Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified What Should I Do?
If you usually connect to this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.
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then when i log to yahoo mail , my system hang for a while then continue. how do i know that my system is secure ? what are the steps i should follow to secure my system ? i am still newbie and i dont have time to spend it in search in google or reading blogs
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Mar 3, 2010
I was running Fedora 10 I belive- no issues - did an update to 12 via DVD and now the screen continuously flashes... I see posts about Nvidia issues - but this laptop uses ATI based on HP's website.
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Oct 4, 2010
I am using latest updated Fedora 13 (presently kernel-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686).
kernel imklog error messages fills my hard disk again and again, /var/log/messages file becomes more than 5Gb daily.
the /var/log/messages file contains following entries:
Sep 27 10:35:09 arun kernel: imklog 4.4.2, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Sep 27 10:35:09 arun rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.4.2" x-pid="1083" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
Sep 27 10:35:09 arun atd[19007]: File a0000b0145c567 is in wrong format - aborting
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I think, I can stop kernel logging from /etc/rsyslog.conf, but I wanted to know the real problem.
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Apr 7, 2010
I don't know what I did differently before this happens. Now I cannot access files or see icons on the desktop. The "starting file manager" continuously loops in the bottom panel, continuing to load forever. in the system monitor, if I kill the process "gnome panel", it resets itself, then continues the process. Only thing different I did was install that one thing that gives you System->Preferences->Windows by hitting "yum install control-center-extra".
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Feb 27, 2010
As far as i know VLC is the best media player for linux bc it suppurts all file types. But there is one anoying problem - when i want to listen to song it opens VLC, but when i open another song it opens another new VLC window. And this problemug or whatever didnt apear in Windows version VLC player.
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Jul 15, 2011
The way I switch in between applications is doing Alt+Tab as I am a "keyboard oriented" person. But now with Gnome3 I have a problem: Firefox windows are by default grouped and Alt+Tab can't simple enable me access all the windows. Do you know how to undo this Gnome3 feature?
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Nov 7, 2009
I have Fedora 11 and I cannot play a windows media stream in Firefox. E.g. http://www.rogersplus.ca/movie.asp?mid=35147# from this site I cannot view trailers in Windows Media Format but I can using Real Player. When I select Windows Media Stream, all I see is a black window in place of video.
I have installed following plugins in Firefox, DivX Browser Plug-in (Geko Media Player 0.9.8), MozPlugger 1.12.1, gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8, VLC Multimedia Plug-in 1.0.3.
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Dec 22, 2010
I create/modify web pages on Ubuntu and on Ubuntu it looks good but on Firefox that runs on Windows it is all messed up. The pictures or text is not as intended and that is really annoying. What is the issue here?I really don't understand.
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Jun 20, 2010
Firefox opens file listing instead of Nautilus opening file listing.When I access a folder via "Places" -> "Home Folder" or "Places" -> "Downloads", Firefox opens and list the contents of the directory.I have re-installed Nautilus, un-installed Firefox and then going to "Places" -> "Home Folder" or "Places" -> "Downloads" launches Nautilus and I can view the contents normally. Anybody else had this problem with Firefox ? Anybody know how to fix this Firefox problem ?Running Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 64bit.
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Nov 2, 2009
I somehow managed to stuff up my Bookmarks in the Places Menu while using Totem Media Player: When trying to open locations from Places Menu, Totem opens instead of Nautilus.I'm running fedora 9.
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Jun 15, 2010
I got my livna, and rpm fusion repositories in order today, and my dvd started playing movies, but when I tried my cd rom, nothing happened when I inserted a music cd. I googled for info and came accross a blog talking about permissions. And when I right clicked on my cd drive icon and looked into permissios, it said: "The permissions of "CD DRIVE" could not be determined. The open with tab was blank, so I selected "Rythmbox" and thought that would fix it, but it's still not doing any thing after inserting cd. Also if I try looking up the cd from within Rythmbox, the cd doesn't show.
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Jul 24, 2010
Thunderbird has been running on my Fedora 13. After a recent yum update, it opens a tiny window in the upper left corner of my screen, which I can enlarge manually. There are no contents in the window. I cannot see anything.
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Jun 30, 2009
When closing the gnome-terminal a dialogue box opens that says:
Close This Window?
There is a process still running in this terminal.
Closing this terminal will kill it.
Nothing is running it's complete, so I have to close the box then the terminal closes. I know I'm a perfectionist. how to get rid of this?
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Dec 3, 2009
For some reason my terminal now opens as -bash-4.0$ and will not let me login as any user.Is there anyway to fix this? It's very annoying and I've never came across it before.
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Aug 19, 2010
I am trying to run a script that automatically opens Nautilus as root for a certain directory.
# cd /home/abby/Desktop
# gedit go2html.sh
cd /var/www/html
su -c "nautilus ./ &"
# chmod u+x go2html.sh
# ./go2html
The script appears to run but the foreground process closes unexpectedly.
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