Duplicate windows

AC1962
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Topic 192071

I'm not techie at all - when I clicked on the message board just now and tried to update recently I get two windows opening - why?

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Jord
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Duplicate windows

What is opening two windows? Your browser?
Do you want to tell us which browser it is? Is that browser set as your default browser under whatever operating system you run? Which Boinc version?

AC1962
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Hello, BOINC v5.2.7, I run BT

Hello, BOINC v5.2.7, I run BT Yahoo browser on XP Home and what appears to happen is a new tab in the browser window is created plus two new tabs (like now of the MEssage boards) in a new browser window - make sense?

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Jord
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I could be a bug in 5.2.7

I could be a bug in 5.2.7 (which is a very old Alpha version, by the way). Have you tried it with 5.4.11, the present recommended Boinc version?

I've tried all buttons in my Boinc version, it opens new tabs in the same Mozilla that I have open. That is because I did set my preferences for tabbed browsing in my browser to do so. Might be something you want to look into on the preferences of your browser, what it should do with opening links from within the browser and from external programs.

Sou'westerly
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I had exactly the same

I had exactly the same problem with 5.4.11 after a windoze “security� update a couple of weeks ago. It happened on all projects. I cured it by going to IE7, probably what the Gates empire intended in the first place. dAVE

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I'm using BOINC 5.4.9 and

I'm using BOINC 5.4.9 and began getting multiple open IE browser windows (tabs) when I upgraded to IE7. I couldn't prevent the problem. However, after some additional windows updates and reboots the problem disappeared.

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