320752 - viewing this page breaks switching tabs by clicking

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

After I switch to a tab that has loaded the provided URL, I lose the ability to change tabs by clicking on them.  I can still ctrl-tab, ctrl-shift-tab, and ctrl-1/2/3/etc.  And I can create new tabs, and close them with ctrl-W.  And drag them around!  Just can't click them.

It doesn't happen every time, and I can eventually remedy the problem by opening new windows and tabs, and closing them.  After a while I will get a bunch of tab changes and sometimes window-raises, which don't _seem_ to be related to the tabs I tried to select when it was busted.

My console gets

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMXULElement.boxObject]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml :: get_docShell :: line 0"  data: no]

a fair bit, but not once per attempted tab select, nor once per breakage of tab-switching.

I don't really even know where to begin, I confess.

Comment 1

[Thomas Andrews]

I've seen this same problem a few times, always on Windows.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051218 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005121805

I don't see it on the URL provided but I saw it here: Bug 319773 (java involved) but maybe there are related some way and this bug has a regression date.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051108 Firefox/1.5

Comment 4

[Mircea Chirea]

same problem :(...it's a major problem...if won't be corrected soon, please put 1.5 on the main page (mozilla.com)

Comment 5

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

1.5 is on the main page (now 1.5.0.1).

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

if you still see this problem in version 3.x, please comment.
if you do not still see the problem, please close as WORKFORME (or some other appropriate resolution)

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

No feedback from the reporter. Feel free to reopen the bug when you are still able to reproduce it with the most recent version of Firefox.