176055 - Opening a jillion tabs breaks some functionality

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 186099

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Shawn Lindsay]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021021 Phoenix/0.3,
build 2002102108

Open links in a jillion tabs (more than 50, probabably 100 will do).  The last
ten or twenty won't load.  As you go through the tabs and close them--scrolling
is not implemented?--when you get to the last ones you will see a dead page. 
Mouseover will display the urls of the pages that wouldn't load.  These tabs
cannot be closed.  You may have to kill the browser.

In this situation, "add bookmark" no longer works.  You may be able to load your
bookmarks in the sidebar, but the screen will get messed up when you close the
sidebar.  You can reduce the browser and raise it again to see it redraw.  

The obvious workaround is to not load a jillion tabs. I would consider this
trivial;  however, it could be frustrating for a user trying to bookmark some
pages before killing the browser.  

I'm doing this on a 56k.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->mozilla.

Comment 2

[Alexander Opitz]

Reporter can you reproduce this bug with a newer build (1.4 final)?
If not, then please close this bug as worksforme. Thanks.

Comment 3

[tom wible]

osx v1.6 breaks w/ only ~8 tabs: left-most tabs unselectable(although right-most
tabs ok) and back/fwd/reload/stop buttons not working;-(

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186099 ***