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how do I prevent a new window by mistake

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gert_glick
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I usually have a lot of tabs opened Too often I expirience that instead of moving from a tab down to another tab, I instead get the first tab changed to a new window :( I seems to happen because I move the mouse down and not to the left or rigth to antother tab It is very annoing. Is there a way to avoid this ? kind regards from denmark

I usually have a lot of tabs opened Too often I expirience that instead of moving from a tab down to another tab, I instead get the first tab changed to a new window :( I seems to happen because I move the mouse down and not to the left or rigth to antother tab It is very annoing. Is there a way to avoid this ? kind regards from denmark

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Enter about:config in the URL bar and set browser.tabs.allowTabDetach = false.

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TyDraniu
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Enter about:config in the URL bar and set browser.tabs.allowTabDetach = false.

gert_glick
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Hi TyDraniu

thank you VERY MUCH for the help :) :)

kind regards