weird firefox problem

[Erwin Rol]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 13:05 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> Erwin Rol wrote:
> > After clicking a link Firefox sometimes opens a new window that only
> > holds the page where the link points to. The firefox main window stays
> > empty and never gets updated anymore. When clicking "back" the main
> > window has the previous page again, and the new window stays empty. When
> > closing that new window firefox exits as if the main window was closed.
> > 
> > One place where this happens a lot is heise.de, for example i just had
> > it when clicking the first forum link on this page;
> > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/go.shtml?list=1&forum_id=97683
> > 
> > Has anybody else ever seen this problem, or would it just be a messed up
> > firefox on my system ?
> > 
> > BTW this is a 64bit AMD system.
> 
> Yep I have it too... 64bit AMD system but 32-bit firefox.  This is going 
> through squid on another box.  Not sure from which direction this is coming.

What kind of firefox (if at all) plugins do you have ? for a while i
thought the tabbed-browsing one was the problem, but it also happened
with out it. 

I had it on another page where there where frames, and all 3 frames
ended up being a own toplevel window. 

- Erwin