I tried the following without success
irb(main):001:0 require 'watir'
= true
irb(main):002:0 Watir::Browser.default = 'firefox'
= firefox
irb(main):003:0 url = '
http://overlay-retail-test-files.overlay.tv/watir/watir-group-new-window.html
'
=
It does look like a bug in firewatir. You can open a ticket and wait for it
to be fixed, maybe. You can try Vapir-Firefox, which is my much-improved
fork of firewatir - see http://vapir.org/ and the wiki at
http://wiki.github.com/vapir/vapir/
There's also watir-webdriver, which may be worth a
