First Firefox window,from a clicked link, automatically shows the bookmarks.Didn't before.How to change it back?
Originally, with no Firefox windows on my screen, when I clicked a link from Apple Mail or other source, a Firefox window would appear with a tab window of the link only. Now something has changed. This first window always shows the bookmarks panel on the left, automatically, which is a pain as I have to almost always Command B to hide it again.
Tests:
- 1. After the 1st Firefox window, automatically showing the left bookmark panel, is up, initiated from a link, if I Command N, a new 2nd window shows with the left bookmarks also.
- 2. If I hide the bookmarks, Command B, on the 1st window and Command N, make a 2nd window, the bookmarks will be hidden.
- 3. If I hide the bookmarks on the 2nd window and create a 3rd, the bookmarks on the 2nd and 3rd window automatically are hidden, BUT the 1st window STILL shows the bookmarks.
- 4. When I quit Firefox completely, then open it again directly from the icon, the window will automatically show the bookmarks.
Am I missing something in preferences to turn off automatically showing the bookmarks panel? And why, in #3 circumstance, listed above, wouldn’t ALL the windows hide the bookmarks?
Wubrane rozrisanje
- Quit Firefox completely (Firefox menu > Quit Firefox option).
- Open Firefox from the icon.
- Close the Bookmarks window
- Quit Firefox completely.
Now you should no longer see the Bookmarks window the next time you open Firefox.
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Wubrane rozrisanje
- Quit Firefox completely (Firefox menu > Quit Firefox option).
- Open Firefox from the icon.
- Close the Bookmarks window
- Quit Firefox completely.
Now you should no longer see the Bookmarks window the next time you open Firefox.
Yay! It worked! So simple and exact.
This brings up more questions:
How did you figure this out?
Why did this happen in the first place?
Why couldn't I find an option to automatically display/not display the bookmarks? Does Firefox have one?
And even so, would I still have had the same issue?
Thanks
You're welcome!
The problem that you saw happened because of 3 reasons (I know these mainly by observing the Firefox behavior):
- If the bookmarks window is open and you quit Firefox, Firefox remembers it and shows it again the next time you open Firefox.
- If 2 windows of Firefox already have the bookmarks window open, closing it in one window has no effect on the other window.
- If a Firefox window has bookmarks open, then opening a new Firefox window will also have the bookmarks window.
Note that there is no option to automatically display/not display the bookmarks. If you had it open the last time you closed Firefox, it will be shown the next time you open Firefox.
Thank You.