How To Fix Double Alt Tab In Windows 10
Kian Trip
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Every time I click a link, Firefox opens two (2) windows. One with the URL link and one just with my FF home page. And fixes with easy to follow steps? Happens with both my MacBook Air, the old one and the new one. Both are running OS Catalina V10.15.2
TY:) You are the best and this ole gramma wannabe doesn't believe there's anything 'cranky' about you! LOL! You restored my faith in this Mozilla Community Support page as past ?s, plus this one, just did not get any responses or replies.
Gosh, I'm just overwhelmed with thanks that YOU even responded! This is the first time ever that I've posted and posted and not gotten any responses. Well, one guy wanted to 'sell' me support, which I thot odd as I didn't realize 'consultants' could do that from this support site!
Yes, have done in 'safe mode'. Have disabled add-ons. At this point I think the only extension I have is LastPass, my password manager. But I've re-installed without it and the double windows still happen.
Happens when I click on a link in email or texts. No, if FF is already open and, for instance, I click on a link in my email from the NY Times then it just opens another tab. But if FF is not open, then it opens 2 windows; one with the NYT article and one normal FF window with my normal homepage.
Can you check your Firefox preferences, on the first (General) page? At least temporarily, un-check Restore Previous Session in the Startup section at the top, if it is not already. Under the Tabs section, check the box for Open Links in Tabs Instead of New windows.
If you do have an old profile and a lot stored in LastPass, i would suggest a safety backup before Refreshing, just in case. From the about:support page (you can just enter that into the address bar), you can easily click through to your profile folder and save a copy to your desktop or however you like. You can also click Refresh Firefox on that same page.
Failing that, I hadn't yet seen and references to applications starting twice like that on Mac, but historically i have seen it on Windows and usually has something to do with the settings for the default applications to open files and protocols. This, especially since you confirm this happens only when the FF application is not already running.
OK, one more, this for stuck weird settings on Macs:Power off the Mac. Press and hold Command + R + P and the power button for 15 seconds or until you hear the second startup sound.This clears settings stored in non-volatile memory. It may clear your time zone, display, or other settings, so you would have to check those.Suggestion from here: here: -us/HT204063
Again, TY so much for spending any of your time on this! All of that has already been done except for 'same' or 'old' profile, which I've done nothing with, didn't know anything about. So I will try that and if it does anything will post it here. But you did give me another good idea which is I'll post on the apple forums. Those links are a few years old and apple may not longer to FF questions. That's the line we get when we call apple's tech help so I didn't want to even try... but I'm so frustrated that I might. Will let you know if I get any fixes.
Hey hi! Thanks again, and guess what? Via the Apple help community I found out I'm not the only one. Someone replied and this is their response to my query. Looks like it'll be fixed with the next update. Although I'm not holding my breath:
If you like, you can test and see how it goes with a Firefox Developer version (it was at 73, i keep declining updates for Developer as i want it as close to the regular current version as possible). Neither the installed version nor a PortableApps version will interfere with any other installed Firefox. The program and profile are separate.)
That'd be cool to test something like that, but I don't feel I know enough technically to decipher the changes or its effects? So I dunno what to say, but its probably the last thing I need right now in the way of 'distraction' as I'm on the survival end of things.
Ah, i only meant you can install it (or use a portable version) and see if that solves your double-opening windows for now. The Developer version is at 73 beta 6. The release date for "regular" Firefox 73 is slated for February 11. Having the Developer version alongside for the time being might offer a reprieve from crazy-windows if they are causing issues.
If you can tolerate it, a possible workaround is to keep at least one Firefox window open as much as you can. The external link should open as a new tab in that window, and there should not be any new empty windows.
I looked at Firefox preferences. I think that it has to do with this two selections in the picture (Homepage and new windows). It is a dumb design/programming because there is no option for turning it off the new window such as check and uncheck marks. I realized that this has been going on the same problem that never fix the program.
Everyone has those settings, but as far as I know, the bug is just under the specific conditions I mentioned. The bug is already in the queue and there is no point emailing anyone about it. Duplicate bugs are closed promptly.
I'm using MacOS 10.15.4: When launching my default browser, Firefox 75.0, from a link or webloc, it opens the link in a separate window from my home page. Upon reviewing this support page, I see that many others have had this problem and it has been continuing, at a minimum, since January. When will it be resolved?
The problem has been happening since at least last summer, maybe longer but my memory hormones are often MIA. AT the beginning of the year I was told a fix would happen with the Feb 7 update, which came and went and there was no fix. Frustrating especially for those of us Mac users who have been with FF since its beginning.
Firefox is just demonstrating, again, that Mac computers, Apple products, are not valued by Mozilla. So that means us, the users who happen to love Macs do not get their issues resolved. So don't hold your breath cause the mozilla folks won't even respond, let alone fix this.
DynDOLOD has been working fine for me, except for the fact that most windows in the game appear to be floating/doubled about a foot away from where the windows actually should be on the buildings. Using the console, the floating windows tell me that DynDOLOD.esp is responsible, but I also use Rustic Windows and ELFX (specifically the Exteriors) if that can help at all.
I tried googling the issue and found an old post on this very forum claiming that the floating windows are caused by the window glow settings in DynDOLOD's executable, I'm not sure if that's useful or if I should try to rebuild DynDOLOD without the window glow option ticked.
Annoyingly enough I don't want to just disable them with the console as the floating windows seem to have Rustic Windows' new and better textures, while the ones stuck to the buildings as they should be have vanilla textures. I suppose another solution would be to manually move the windows to where they should be by using the console, but that seems pretty time-consuming and so I hope a better option is available.
The NetImmerse option should only change the brightness of LOD windows. Make a negative test where you turn it off again and check if it consistently changes things back. Repeat to see if it always affects the same objects.
Verify that the scripts in ..Data\Scripts\SHESON_DynDOLOD_*.pex are the version from latest Resources archive and none are overwritten. They should all have the same date August 26 (may be off by a day depending on your time zone)
After doing some more testing, it seems like I've narrowed the issue down to script lag from too many mods that stops DynDOLOD from fully initializing on most new saves. I had to create about 3 new saves and got lucky on the third try before it 'fully' initialized, marked by the "DynDOLOD Enabled" box in the MCM being ticked automatically
Is there a console command for the DynDOLOD 'quest' that I can use to force another re-initialization perhaps? Otherwise, I will have to manually disable all of the offending windows, which will take some time but at least they won't appear again in this save. There appear to be no other differences between this save and a 'full' initialization when it works on a new save, aside from the floating windows.
If that doesn't work, do the clean save routine as already suggest. Disable from menu if active. Go inside. Save, Disable esp, start game and save again, enable esp, load last save, go outside and after it loaded the exterior, wait for it to activate by itself before moving about.
I guess you could either remove the updated architectures models, if you want to have the rustic windows, or just not use rustic windows (run TexGen afterwards so the windows LOD textures are vanilla again, which will match the textures from ELFX better).
Success! Well, 99% success. The clean save routine worked fine, I had to wait around for about 10 minutes to finally get the "DynDOLOD initialized" message, and most of the offending double windows were gone!
And yeah it's a shame that ELFX doesn't play nicely with Rustic Windows, but I don't even care at this point. RW looks great indoors and it'll save me performance outdoors by not loading the higher res window textures now.
I live in Montreal and I just moved from a building that had double sliding windows in each window frame (I assume a single pane each) to a building with single double-pane windows that look a lot newer. The heating bill for the new apartment is much larger and the soundproofing is non-existent, I have a volume of street noise that sounds like my windows are open at all times, I can hear two people talking on the other side of the street (I am on the second floor).
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