[GH-ISSUE #3989] First link to Firefox Opens New Window Instead of New Tab #2496

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opened 2026-05-05 09:10:43 -06:00 by gitea-mirror · 1 comment

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Originally created by @Shimergo on GitHub (Feb 14, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/3989

Firefox is firejailed. The first time I click on a URL in another application, it opens a new Firefox window with just my home page and not the link I want. It happens from any application (Thunderbird, KeePass, LibreOffice), and it doesn’t matter whether that app is firejailed or not. But clicking on subsequent weblinks (again any application), it then works fine, ie. it opens a new tab in the original Firefox window.

If Firefox is not firejailed, then I don’t get this weird first link-click behaviour.

Any idea how I can get that first click on a URL to open a new tab in the firejailed Firefox window? Presumably it’s something clever in ~/.config/firejail/firefox.local since this seems to be a Firefox ‘feature’?

Originally created by @Shimergo on GitHub (Feb 14, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/3989 Firefox is firejailed. The first time I click on a URL in another application, it opens a new Firefox window with just my home page and not the link I want. It happens from any application (Thunderbird, KeePass, LibreOffice), and it doesn’t matter whether that app is firejailed or not. But clicking on subsequent weblinks (again any application), it then works fine, ie. it opens a new tab in the original Firefox window. If Firefox is not firejailed, then I don’t get this weird first link-click behaviour. Any idea how I can get that first click on a URL to open a new tab in the firejailed Firefox window? Presumably it’s something clever in ~/.config/firejail/firefox.local since this seems to be a Firefox ‘feature’?

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2026-05-05 09:10:46 -06:00

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@Shimergo commented on GitHub (Feb 23, 2021):

Although there’s a little extra info here regarding other applications affected, this issue is now being dealt with in #3982 , where it evolved from different symptoms found under a slightly older Firejail release.

@Shimergo commented on GitHub (Feb 23, 2021): Although there’s a little extra info here regarding other applications affected, this issue is now being dealt with in [#3982](https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/3982) , where it evolved from different symptoms found under a slightly older Firejail release.

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