[Bug 19552] Re: Crash after firefox is opening a new window (when it should open the new URL in the same window/tab) - No More Crash Report Please!

[Oliver Gerlich]

In reply to the original bug report: the problem seen in the screen shot seems to come up on different distros; it seems nobody is able to reliably reproduce it...
Maybe to narrow down the various bugs behind this bug report: I've experienced this "page opens in new window instead of new tab, and FF crashes if that window is closed" thing on Debian Etch, and noticed that Firefox will print some GTK warnings on stdout when this happens. If you start Firefox not from some terminal, the messages appear in ~/.xsession-errors , and look like this:

(Gecko:3684): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x2eb26d1 unexpectedly destroyed
(Gecko:3684): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_set_user_data: assertion `window != NULL' failed
(Gecko:3684): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_set_back_pixmap: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
(Gecko:3684): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
(Gecko:3684): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
(Gecko:3684): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_move_resize: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW(window)' failed
(Gecko:3684): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_show_unraised: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
(Gecko:3684): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_resize: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode:  19
  Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x2ea4609


If you google for the terms "firefox" "GdkWindow" "unexpectedly" "destroyed" there come up a few bug reports similar to the original one... Maybe someone can confirm whether this is the same bug?

Btw. this problem has occured to me quite often when opening lots of
pages on heise.de (going over all article links on the main page and
selecting "Open in new tab" for every article eventually triggers it).

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Crash after firefox is opening a new window (when it should open the new URL in the same window/tab) - No More Crash Report Please!
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