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I have multiple tabs open and when I click on a tab the screen will blink and that tab is on a page by itself. Still have a page with multiple tabs except the tab that i clicked on is no longer on that page. It looks like another instance of Firefox has been created. Snapshot of my system. retard@retard-MS-7693:~$ inxi -F System:
Host: retard-MS-7693 Kernel: 5.4.0-77-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: MATE 1.24.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: 970A-G46 (MS-7693) v: 2.0 serial: <superuser/root required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2.6 date: 10/08/2013
CPU:
Topology: 8-Core model: AMD FX-8350 bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB Speed: 1399 MHz min/max: 1400/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1399 2: 1395 3: 1422 4: 1803 5: 1399 6: 1399 7: 1398 8: 1399
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] driver: nvidia v: 390.143 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.143
Audio:
Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia driver: snd_hda_intel Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-77-generic
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 44:8a:5b:2f:9c:ba
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 38.68 GiB (4.2%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 444.39 GiB used: 38.68 GiB (8.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 25.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 48 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 46%
Info:
Processes: 222 Uptime: 38m Memory: 31.32 GiB used: 1.58 GiB (5.1%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38
retard@retard-MS-7693:~$
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I have done a screen recording of the problem located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHSyPlPq4GM
Hello, I watched your video clip and found problem in your operation.
In the video you dragged the tab down and it blink into a new window. It's exactly a feature of Firefox: Drag a tab down and it will appear in a whole new Firefox instance.
So next time just single click on your tab if you don't want to see the problem again. Or is there something wrong on your mouse?
I don't know what you saw, but I didn't see a drag, and I don't intend to drag. I purposely did the drag technique, and you have to drag quite a distance before it changes to another page, and I KNOW I don't think the drag theory holds any water.. I have since discovered that it only does it on one social media site. Plus the problem only started on July 7, 2021. I have been posting 100 to 200 posts, per day, on multiple social media sites for years and never had this occur. The mouse is only a couple of months old, so I don't think it's a problem.