getWindowHandles() not working in firefox 58.The focus remains on parent tab and does not transfer to next tab

getWindowHandles() works pretty fine but before invoking getWindowHandles() you have to induce WebDriverwait as follows :

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/");
String parent= driver.getWindowHandle();
System.out.println("Parent Window is"+parent);
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Data Policy")).click();
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,5);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.numberOfWindowsToBe(2));
Set<String> s1= driver.getWindowHandles();
for(String s2:s1)
{
    if(!parent.equalsIgnoreCase(s2))
        {
            driver.switchTo().window(s2);
            Thread.sleep(5000);
            System.out.println(driver.getWindowHandle());
            System.out.println("get title of window"+driver.getTitle());
        }
}

Console Output :

Parent Window is4294967297
4294967303
get title of windowData Policy

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