# Firefox - New tab problem **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 28, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-new-tab-problem/314654 "2005-07-28T21:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yastobaal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@yastobaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yastobaal)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-new-tab-problem/314654/1 "2005-07-28T21:44:42Z")
Hopefully somebody can help. I downloaded an update to the wonderful browser firefox so I’m now version 1.0.6. Before the update I could right click and open a link in a new tab. Handy if I was googling or things like that. Now when I right click and select a “open in a new tab” it does nothing. Can anybody help? ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-new-tab-problem/314654/2 "2005-07-28T23:24:22Z")
I had problems with the upgrade, too. Every time I tried to open anything I would get a message that Roboform was interfering and then my system would freeze. I finally ended up going back to v1.0.4. I never saw a v1.0.5. Is there one? ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-new-tab-problem/314654/3 "2005-07-29T00:44:24Z")
1.0.5 was out for a short time, but broke some extension APIs, so 1.0.6 came out about a day or so after. **yastobaal** : What extensions do you have installed? ---
**Author:** ![seetha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seetha/32/18835_2.png) [@seetha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seetha)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-new-tab-problem/314654/4 "2005-07-29T03:07:24Z")
yastobaal, doesnt middle-clicking do the same trick - opening in a new tab? ---
**Author:** ![yastobaal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@yastobaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yastobaal)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-new-tab-problem/314654/5 "2005-07-29T06:45:58Z")
Middle clicking unfortunatly doesn’t work either. My extensions are: DOM Inspector, Mouse Gestures, Tabbrowser Extensions, Adblock and DictionarySearch. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-new-tab-problem/314654/6 "2005-07-29T07:02:05Z")
Betcha it’s the Tab Browser extension. I had a similar problem at work. You can temporarily disable extensions - I’ll bet things work properly after that. I’ll check what setting you have to toggle tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-new-tab-problem/314654/7 "2005-07-29T07:16:40Z")
I’m still in 1.0.4, so I don’t know if this is relevant at all, but ctrl-click does the same thing (if you set it that way in the preferences), so if it’s a problem with the right-click menu itself, then try using ctrl-click instead. ---
**Author:** ![yastobaal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@yastobaal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yastobaal)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-new-tab-problem/314654/8 "2005-07-29T07:41:29Z")
> [@Nanoda](#): > > Betcha it’s the Tab Browser extension. I had a similar problem at work. You can temporarily disable extensions - I’ll bet things work properly after that. I’ll check what setting you have to toggle tomorrow. Bingo. Thanks for that. I looked to see if there was an update to the Tab Browser extension and downloaded the one I found. Sorted out the problem. Thanks again.