Comments on: Why can't I see Firefox window?

Question: Why can't I see Firefox window?

partner — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:17:10 -0800

I started OS X this morning and Firefox isn't visible. That is to say, I can't see a window or any tabs, though I can see the top toolbar -- the Apple - Firefox - File - Edit... row. Normally it opens at startup. What to do?

By: third word on a random page

third word on a random page — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:24:27 -0800

Press Command-N to start a new window.

By: partner

partner — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:30:23 -0800

@third word -- Thanks, that worked, but I lost the tabs from yesterday, which normally open. Ideas?

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:39:52 -0800

History > Recently Closed Tabs or History > Recently Closed Windows.

By: devnull

devnull — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:46:48 -0800

Ctrl+T works too.

By: partner

partner — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 04:50:37 -0800

OK. Why do you think this happened? Are my preferences being changed for some reason?

By: The Deej

The Deej — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:02:57 -0800

It's possible you closed the Firefox window (clicked the red button in the upper left, or used command-W) instead of quitting Firefox (command-Q). If you then shut down the computer, Firefox quit with no windows open. So, the next time you started Firefox, if it remembered it last state when quitting, that would be: no windows open.

(Educated guess; haven't used Firefox in a long time.)

By: You Should See the Other Guy

You Should See the Other Guy — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:12:08 -0800

Are you on Mountain Lion? If so, this is a known issue but not Firefox-related. Something's buggy with Mountain Lion. On my machines, for instance, starting an app starts the app fine but the app does not appear in the dock and cannot be accessed with cntrl-tab. There are various solutions online (deleting the dock file with Terminal and other things) but the issue keeps returning.

By: partner

partner — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:12:22 -0800

Thanks Deej