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 only window you have open in Firefox is the bookmarks manager, then opening a new browser window can be tricky. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the bookmarks manager. 2. Close all other windows. 3. Click in the bookmarks manager window (notice the menu bar changes to the bookmarks manager context). 4. Try to open a new browser window. Actual Results: It's hard. Since the bookmarks manager changes the menu bar, there is no CMD-N or File -> New Window. The only two ways I've found how to do it are: 1. Close the bookmarks manager window and try again. 2. Hit CMD-TAB until you select the super-secret invisible window (see #168692 and #223545), then the menu changes back and you can try again. Expected Results: You know what? I have no idea. I expected to be able to open a new browser window, but I haven't the foggiest idea how to be presented with the opportunity that retains any kind of UI consistency. It's probably useful to note that workaround #2 (above) is probably no longer going to work since the super-secret invisible window is no longer accessible. It may be that the best thing is just to leave the behavior and require that people close the bookmarks manager to open a new browser window. Or perhaps put a "New Window" command in the bookmarks manager's File menu? I dunno. It's late. My head hurts. :-)

This is a dup

See the discussion in bug 239218 (there are others). This is usually reported with the Downloads Manager or other Windows opened from the Tools Menu.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239218 ***

not a dupe, bug 239218 was about menuless windows

This bug also appears in the more common situation where the Download window is open, downloading a large file. When the Download window is the only window of Firefox, hitting Apple-N and using the File Menu to create a new browsing window does not work. The work around I have found is to click a link in another program to spawn the browsing window. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.) Launch Firefox. 2.) Open Downloads dialog 3.) Close all other windows, other than Downloads 4.) Attempt to open new browser window.

(In reply to comment #5) > This bug also appears in the more common situation where the Download window is > open, downloading a large file. When the Download window is the only window of > Firefox, hitting Apple-N and using the File Menu to create a new browsing window > does not work. That's fixed for 1.1 (see bug 239218).

Likewise with the download manager.

*** Bug 325841 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 327718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

basicly same as bug 137509, but apprently accel+N should work on Mac

This works fine for me with a recent trunk build (Mac OS 10.6.5). If I open the library window and then close all other windows, I'll have the main menubar visible (with File, Edit.. etc). I can then choose File --> New Window or hit Cmd+N and a new browser window opens. I suspect this was solved a long time ago. --> WFM.