1682615 - new tabs don't work on MacBook Air using Big Sur OS

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[omarksky]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.1 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

Clicked on + to open new tab, then typed in URL (e.g., portal.office.com or drive.google.com).

Actual results:

Nothing happens: black screen but it looks like it's trying to load something -- but it never does.

Expected results:

It should have loaded the URL.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

(In reply to omarksky from comment #0)

Nothing happens: black screen but it looks like it's trying to load something -- but it never does.

Sounds like a graphics issue to me.

Comment 3

[Jamie Nicol [:jnicol]]

Can you please attach a copy of your about:support information?

When you click the + button is it just black straight away, or does a new tab page appear, then turn black after you type the URL? Can you open new tabs in other ways, such as middle clicking on a link? Does navigating to a new URL in the current tab work?

Comment 4

[omarksky]

(In reply to Jamie Nicol [:jnicol] from comment #3)

Can you please attach a copy of your about:support information?

When you click the + button is it just black straight away, or does a new tab page appear, then turn black after you type the URL? Can you open new tabs in other ways, such as middle clicking on a link? Does navigating to a new URL in the current tab work?

1. I click the + button, new tab opens. I type in URL, I get a brief X showing in upper left (I forget what you call it) which quickly turns to the circle-with-arrow refresh icon -- which I presume tells me the page has been loaded. Except that there's nothing there.

2. Nothing else works either, not middle clicking or CMD-clicking.

EXCEPT: today it seems to be working fine! No idea why.

In the meantime, I had taken someone else's advice and was using Nightly, which works fine. I'll keep monitoring...

Comment 5

[Darkspirit]

Has this occured on Stable or Beta? Please open the browser which was affected by this bug, type about:support into the address bar, press enter, click on "Copy text to clipboard" and paste it here. Thanks!