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My tabs get seperated into two seperate windows automatically.

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thetulley
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I will be browsing the web in multiple tabs, not windows, and sometimes (it happens way to often!) I will click on a tab to switch my view to that tab and it will open it in a new window and it will no longer be in the previous window. It is so annoying! How can I disable this or why is it doing it? To re-create what it is doing simply right click on a tab and select open in new window. That is exactly what it does but it happens when i left click on a tab to change my view to that tab. Please Help!

I will be browsing the web in multiple tabs, not windows, and sometimes (it happens way to often!) I will click on a tab to switch my view to that tab and it will open it in a new window and it will no longer be in the previous window. It is so annoying! How can I disable this or why is it doing it? To re-create what it is doing simply right click on a tab and select open in new window. That is exactly what it does but it happens when i left click on a tab to change my view to that tab. Please Help!

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Firefox 3.5/6 versions have a feature called tear-off tabs. You can detach a tab from the current window and open it in a new window by dragging a tab in the browser window. You can drag that tab back to the tab bar in the original window to undo that detaching.

bug489729 (Disable detach and tear off tab):
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/12276

thetulley
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WOW, Thank You! Very timely and you said exactly what I needed to hear. Very much appreciated. Thank you for your contribution!