Problem with firefox opening new windows

[David G. Miller]

Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 09:13 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote:
>> > Occasionally, if I left click on a link, instead of FF opening the
>> > link in the current window, it will open a new window maybe 75% of the
>> > size and open the link there. This window has no decoration other than
>> > a titlebar. The "main" FF window acts like a program that is hung
>> > somewhat.
>>     
>
> That sort of thing is usually down to user-un-friendly webmasters doing
> annoying things in their authoring.
>
>   
>> > The nasty thing is that if I click on the X in the upper right corner
>> > to close the new child window, it completely kills FF, even if there
>> > are several tabs open. I can generally refresh the page and the window
>> > goes away and open properly in the main window. It's really annoying
>> > and I can't reproduce it at will but it does happen often. 
>>     
>
> That shouldn't happen, I'd report that as a bug.  Just for curiosity's
> sake, do you get the same thing happening if you close this extra window
> when using the ALT & F4 hotkeys to close a window?  (Make sure the right
> window is active, first.)
I've seen this behavior too.  Usually it occurs after FF has been 
running for a while.  What's weird is that some link on a site won't 
cause a problem when the running copy of FF is fresh.  Return to the 
site after "a while" and click on the same link again and the problem 
occurs.  I didn't file a bug since I can't reliably reproduce the 
problem.  At least it's not as annoying as the old "take all of the CPU" 
bug that used to occur with about the same frequency.

Cheers,
Dave

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