On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:55:18 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
Every now and then I do a refresh (at least I think I'm refresh)
of a
page in Firefox and it opens the current page in a new window, without
any of the usual page trimmings (like navigation, bookmarks, etc). Much
like a javascript window.open would do with just the bare necessities.
When I close this unexpected window, firefox crashes, wiping out all
firefox windows. However, a couple of times I've noticed small firefox
windows behind this window that I know I haven't opened and that look
suspiciously like what I would imagine would be in a pop-up window if I
saw one (I only use filefox, so any pop-ups are rare to say the least).
I've seen this a couple of times and I'm wondering if anyone can confirm
that they've seen something similar too. To be honest, I wouldn't feel
comfortable filing a bug on this without something to substantiate the
crash. I don't get a bug-buddy pop-up on crash, so I don't really have
anything to give to developers other than what I've said above.
I've hit this a couple of times. The last occurred several days ago at
bugzilla.redhat.com (coming back from searching to enter a bug). I
finally downloaded the debuginfo for firefox for when it happens again.
I see this only every couple of weeks. Thankfully, Firefox can restore
itself.
-Paul