User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 If the view source window is the only open window in Firefox, there's no way to open a new browser window. The workaround is to close the application and reopen it or open a link from an external source. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open firefox, browse to a page 2. View -> Page Source, then close the original browser window 3. Now try to bring up a new browsr from within Firefox Actual Results: Only simple File, Edit, View menus appear. Command-N (New Window) is non-functional. Expected Results: I think most of the menus from the browser should remain functional within View Source. New Window and New Tab in particular should be functional. New Tab would bring focus back to the window we're seeing the source of and create a new tab, or create a new window if that window was closed. The same behavior could apply for the Go and Bookmarks menus: If a bookmark is selected from the View Source window, the bookmark would load into the window we're seeing the source of, or a new window if that one's gone.

(In reply to comment #0) > Actual Results: > Only simple File, Edit, View menus appear. Command-N (New Window) is non-functional. > > Expected Results: > I think most of the menus from the browser should remain functional within View > Source. This is an artifact on the per-window menubars that exist in non-Mac platforms. Since they want simple menubars in those windows, and since all other windows are closed, you only see a very limited menubar. There's about a gazillion bugs around this limited menubar, see bug 239218.

OK, thanks for pointing that out.. it didn't show up in my searches. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239218 ***

not a dupe, bug 239218 was about menuless windows.

confirming, for now.

(In reply to comment #0) > The workaround is to close the application and reopen > it or open a link from an external source. I opened a view source to this page, closed firefox (it confirmed the closing of tabs), and then clicked the Firefox icon in my quick launch bar. The new browser window opened fine, and I still have the view source window open. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050419 Firefox/1.0+ Just to add, that the workaround is not completely accurate.

disregard last comment - i saw this in #firefox and totally missed that it was a mac bug, thanks to kbrosnan for telling me.