[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!

[Andy Behrens]

I can confirm that this bug -- exactly as described by Oliver
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/firefox/+bug/19552/comments/75)
-- still exists in all the releases of Firefox up to 3.0.3 (which is the
newest that I've tested), on Fedora 6 and Fedora 8.

One thing that seems to drive it is a really *large* number of tabs
(e.g. 10 windows with 25 tabs each). This is especially true if a number
of those tabs are sites that auto-refresh frequently. Sites like
mail.yahoo.com also seem to aggravate the problem; I assume it's doing
refreshes behind the scene. With 250 tabs open, I'll get a crash after
two or three days of browsing. With 250 tabs + auto-refreshing, time
before a crash is typically about than a day.

The "bad window" that opens doesn't always contain an entire page;
sometimes it's just a frame or image belonging to another page. If you
close the page that the frame/image belonged to, the bad window will
close also. (This is the only way to make the bad windows go away
without crashing Firefox).

Since I can make these crashes happen on a fairly regular basis, I'd be
happy to be a tester if someone wants me to run a debugging version of
FF with extra logging.

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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!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19552
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