[Bug 335084] [NEW] firefox makes unlimited instances of itself

[Jerry Story]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox makes unlimited instances of itself.  This behavior happens
unpredictably when I click on certain links. I don't know what it is
about those links that triggers this behavior. It is hard to observe
which link triggered this behavior because firefox is going crazy. I
don't know what is common to the links that trigger this behavior.

To restore firefox, I try to get rid of the dozens of instances of
firefox by repeating ctrl W faster than the instances are created. That
sometimes works.  Often even when I get rid of all the instances of
firefox and restart firefox, it resumes making unlimited instances of
itself. If I restart, that doesn't always restore firefox to normal.

This bug is a major nuisance. Please get rid of it. If you don't, I
might switch to a different browser.

I am using Ubuntu 8.04 hardy.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 26 12:10:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/bin:/home/username/euphoria/bin
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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