Waterfox won't open link in new tab

[edzell]

Waterfox 56.2.6 (64-bit) under Mint 17 Mate:

MIddle-click on links offered by search engine doesn't open them in new tab. Neither does R. click > open in new tab. In both cases a new tab appears briefly alongside the tab of the search page, and seems to begin seeking the page, but then just disappears.

[BG405]

Middle-click to open links hasn't worked for me either in Firefox for the past few years (up to when they were forcing Quantum, when I switched to WF) or since then in Waterfox. This was also the case with Windows 7, I believe, with FF before dumping MS. But the right-click option always works, so I wonder if starting Waterfox from the Terminal will reveal any useful error messages?

[edzell]

Ah, sorry BG. In the interim I've uninstalled Waterfox and am now having troubles getting it back on my machine. Do you know whether it can be installed 'stanadlone' - ie without Firefox being on the system? I've never been sure about that. In any case I'm getting error messages when I try to install WF with either Synaptic or apt-get. I'm a sort of perpetual newbie - been using mint for quite a while without much linux knowledge.

[BG405]

I have removed Firefox on all but one of my current systems. WF is a fork of Firefox & doesn't need FF on the system to run.

You won't find WF in the Mint/Ubuntu repos (at this time) but I installed it this way on my Mint 17.3 Cinnamon system and also LM18.2 KDE:

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echo 'deb https://dl.bintray.com/hawkeye116477/waterfox-deb release main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/waterfox.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install waterfox

Check your sources list first but from what you posted, it looks like you may have installed from a download from their site rather than adding the source.

[edzell]

Thanks for the replies.. I've tried installing in more than one way without success. Too many other things happening right now for me to explain properly; I'll log off & post again later.

[edzell]

Well ...

The last time I had Waterfox 'working' - but without the ability to open links in new tabs - it was from a download extracted within my download folder. At the bottom of the list of extracted files was an executable called simply waterfox and that was my launcher.

I have now deleted those extracted files and tried to install WF using the following instructions suggested by a friend:
https://bintray.com/version/readme/hawk ... fox/56.2.2

Waterfox now appears in synaptic but if I try to install from there, or with apt-get, the following appears:

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Could not mark all packages for installation or upgrade.
The following packages have unresolvable dependencies. Make sure that all required repositories are added and enabled in the preferences.

waterfox:
Depends: libdbus-1-3 (>=1.9.14) but 1.6.18-0ubuntu4 is to be installed
Depends: libfontconfig1 (>=2.11.94) but 2.11.0-0ubuntu4.2 is to be installed
Depends: libstdc++6 (>=5.2) but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4 is to be installed
Recommends: waterfox-kde but it is not going to be installed
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I don't know how to proceed.