Firefox problem

[gumboil]

Until a few days ago, when I clicked on a link in a question in AB, a new window opened in front of the one I had been looking at. Now when I click on a link, it opens as a new tab, which isn't a problem, but what does annoy me is that the tab does not open automatically in front of the window I had been looking at - I can see the tab title changing to the page I want in front of my eyes. I have to click on the tab to bring the page forward.

Sorry if this doesn't make much sense, but i don't know how else to describe it!


Thank you

[Jumbuck]

In the TOOLS menu, select OPTIONS and then the TABS tab.

The 4th tick box down is "When I open a new tab, switch to it immediately", make sure that is ticked.

[Jumbuck]

missed a couple of apposite words in that text: "When I open a link in anew tab, switch to it immediately"

[tamborine]

sometimes a sneaky advert slips in. reduce Ab page & delete sneaky.

You should download Firefox again, over current settings as there's a conflict.

[gumboil]

Thank you very much Jumbuck - I'm very grateful. That cured it immediately.

[Jumbuck]

good to know that it worded

[Jumbuck]

Sorry, my typing is dreadful at the moment, that word should have been "worked".

Anyway you're welcome

[gumboil]

Thanks tamborine. I'm using 3.5.5 and this problem suddenly crept in overnight. I can't understand how it can have happened as Firefox was OK yesterday. It's inexplicable how that tick disappeared from the box. I know I didn't do anything!

[tamborine]

Since I share this pc....it collects viruses occasionally and have found the re-downloading sorts it.

[gumboil]

It sounds like it may be worth my while running my Avast AV, Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware.

Thanks.

[Jumbuck]

If you ever want to back up Firefox then may I suggest Mozbackup http://www.mozbackup.org/ - it backs up everything including settings, bookmarks and the add-ons, but the interface is not the most user-friendly.

I've been using this for months and know from experience that it successfully restores Firefox from the backups that it creates.

[Mobius1]

Yeah, MozBackup is all kinds of awesome. I've used it to restore Firefox and all my favourites on a new install of WIndows 7 after reformatting, and replacing my Thunderbird email client and mail archive. I just don't understand why Mozilla don't make their own official version of it.