I have a problem with the Close Button when using Windows 7.
This tends to crop up if I am using Firefox in a private browsing window. At some point, I may accidentally click a button in the menu bar, or do something else, that results in a new, unwanted Firefox window being opened.
I move the mouse pointer to the Close button and click it. Sometimes there is a delay before the window closes, so I click the button again. Then I find that the active window closes, and immediately the window behind that closes as well. This is annoying if that window is a private browsing window, which it usually will be, because Firefox will not restore the previously open tabs when it is reopened (for obvious reasons).
I assume this is a general Windows behaviour, not something that is specific to Firefox.
It seems to me that there ought to be at least a configurable concept whereby mouse clicks on active windows would not be buffered and then used on windows that subsequently appear in that place. Specifically, I would like to flush the mouse click buffer as soon as a "close active window" event is triggered, and not allow additional clicks to be registered until a configurable time has elapsed after the affected window does close (if the actual closing time is known to the operating system).
Alternatively, I may be completely misunderstanding what I am seeing, and this isn't a Windows issue, but something specific to Firefox.
Any ideas?
This tends to crop up if I am using Firefox in a private browsing window. At some point, I may accidentally click a button in the menu bar, or do something else, that results in a new, unwanted Firefox window being opened.
I move the mouse pointer to the Close button and click it. Sometimes there is a delay before the window closes, so I click the button again. Then I find that the active window closes, and immediately the window behind that closes as well. This is annoying if that window is a private browsing window, which it usually will be, because Firefox will not restore the previously open tabs when it is reopened (for obvious reasons).
I assume this is a general Windows behaviour, not something that is specific to Firefox.
It seems to me that there ought to be at least a configurable concept whereby mouse clicks on active windows would not be buffered and then used on windows that subsequently appear in that place. Specifically, I would like to flush the mouse click buffer as soon as a "close active window" event is triggered, and not allow additional clicks to be registered until a configurable time has elapsed after the affected window does close (if the actual closing time is known to the operating system).
Alternatively, I may be completely misunderstanding what I am seeing, and this isn't a Windows issue, but something specific to Firefox.
Any ideas?
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