[SOLVED] Firefox: searching duplicates tabs

[lysar]

The most recent update of firefox has a very annoying issue: when I begin a search from the address bar, I often switch to another tab to read what's there while the previous tab is loading. Sometimes firefox makes both tabs load the same thing, and I have to navigate back (and sometimes login again) to the page I wanted to browse. I'm probably accidentally duplicating the search, but I don't know how, and I can't repeat the behavior when trying to figure it out. I was unable to find anything about this problem via google or the forum search.

[lysar]

I just had the same thing happen when using the search bar: I started a search then switched to another tab, and that tab loaded the same search as the previous one.

Anyone have any ideas? This never happened in previous versions of firefox.

[ternor]

I control that with an extension.  This entry on a knowledge base page may help:

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browser. search. openintab Boolean True: When performing a search from the Search Bar, open the results in a new tab.
False (default): Open search results in the current tab/window.
Note: Firefox nightly trunk builds only.

[lysar]

what extension prevents unwanted tab duplication?

I checked the about:config entry, and it's already false.

I learned today that clicking on a new tab after searching exhibits the same behavior as using ^TAB.

[ternor]

The extension directs that the search be opened in a new tab.  You should set the about:config entry to 'true' if you don't want the search to open in the current tab.

[lysar]

The default (false) has never caused this problem before. I changed the setting and it spawns a new tab for each search from the search bar, just as i expected it would. I want searches to open on the tab I begin them on but not to duplicate on to the tab i switch to after beginning the search.

I attempted to duplicate this issue on my wife's laptop (running Zen mini; my pc is on LXDE mini)--same version of firefox but no error. So, I'm going to purge firefox from my computer and reinstall it in the hopes of correcting the problem.

[ternor]

You could try using a new profile.  If it works, you can recover data from the old profile.  The problem is more likely to be in the profile than in the software installation.

[lysar]

Since I have everything synced with the acct on the laptop, I just reinstalled the whole thing. It seems to work fine, now.

Thanks ternor for your suggestions.