weird firefox crash with suspected 'popups'.

[Reid Rivenburgh]

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