1549286 - New tabs at random open with blank content

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Andreas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Open a link in new tab over the content-menue or the middle mousebutton
• open the search-results in a new tab

Actual results:

• At random the content of the new tab missing
• I can use only Ctrl+w to close the tab. Other shortcuts (i.e. Ctrl+l, Ctrl+t) without response
• when i open a new tab and copy the url in the URL-Row the site loads

This problem appears only in linux, not in windows.
Disabling of addons doesn't change the behavior

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Do you see any errors in the browser console when this happens?

Comment 2

[Andreas]

Hi,

no, i cannot open the console in this tab.

• F12 -> doesn't work
• open over the regular menu -> doesn't work
• Ctrl+shift+K -> doesn't work
• right-mouse-click on the site-content -> doesn't work.

In this tab no command works. Only Ctrl-w and Ctrl-t (sorry that's wrong on my first post)

Comment 3

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Please open the browser console before opening the broken tab.

Comment 4

[Andreas]

No messages in the console-window.

open a link from thunderbird produce the same effect.

Comment 5

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Can you reproduce the bug with a new Firefox profile? See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Multiple_profiles

Comment 6

[Andreas]

I have a new profile on my office-notebook and on my private notebook (standalone, without sync).
My manager have a Ubuntu-OS on his notebook and he have the same problem.

Comment 7

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

Without more information this bug won't be actionable as we can't seem reproduce it ourselves. Could you perhaps help us find out when this problem started happening? See https://mozilla.github.io/mozregression/