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Firefox tries to close everything after I close a popup window

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AnonymousUser
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If I click on a link that opens up in a separate, smaller window (for example, some websites have "Click here for large images" that, when you click the link, opens up a larger image in a popup window), whenever I try to close that popup window, Firefox always tries to close my main window twice.

For example: I navigate to a site that opens up a popup window => I close the popup window => The popup window only closes => The main window of Firefox then brings up the notice to either "Save Tabs and Exit", "Exit", or "Cancel" => I click "Cancel" => The main window of Firefox then brings up the notice again => I click "Cancel" a second time => I then am able to resume browsing as normal.

It is getting pretty annoying. Please help.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== I'm not entirely sure, but it seemed to coincide with upgrading to 3.6.3

If I click on a link that opens up in a separate, smaller window (for example, some websites have "Click here for large images" that, when you click the link, opens up a larger image in a popup window), whenever I try to close that popup window, Firefox always tries to close my main window twice. For example: I navigate to a site that opens up a popup window => I close the popup window => The popup window only closes => The main window of Firefox then brings up the notice to either "Save Tabs and Exit", "Exit", or "Cancel" => I click "Cancel" => The main window of Firefox then brings up the notice again => I click "Cancel" a second time => I then am able to resume browsing as normal. It is getting pretty annoying. Please help. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == I'm not entirely sure, but it seemed to coincide with upgrading to 3.6.3

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ServerGuyScott
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I can reproduce the issue every time in 3.6.10:

I go to this site: http://www.playoutdoors.com/product/deuter-rain-sun-cover.aspx

Click on an image of the product on the right, it spawns the new window, I close the spawned window and it closes all of my Firefox windows (spawned window and the main window).

Firefox Version Info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10

cor-el
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Start Firefox in Diagnose Firefox issues using Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).

See Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems and Troubleshoot issues with plugins like Flash or Java to fix common Firefox problems

bugmenot
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The culprit is Microsoft's HTML5 extension for WMP player plug in 1.0.

I uninstalled it and it fixed everything