weird firefox crash with suspected 'popups'.

[cornel panceac]

any of you using nvidia (proprietary) driver?

2006/12/11, dragoran <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de>:
> Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> > Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> >> Hmmm,
> >>
> >> I've seen the following a couple of times and I'm wondering whether
> >> others have also noticed this.
> >>
> >> 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 have seen something a lot like that.  I noticed that someone
> > reported similar in mozilla's bugzilla:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336646
> >
> > It used to happen much more frequently for me about a year or two ago,
> > but even in firefox 2.0, I still occasionally see it.  (I don't use
> > the fedora rpms in this case.)  I've at least learned to not kill the
> > window!  But once I do see it, it's time to think about restarting
> > firefox.
> >
> > reid
> >
> I have seen this sometimes too... try refreshing again and the window
> might disapaer (happend for me but not always). I had no idea how to
> fill this bug too.
>
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