187681 - browser gets stuck in a loop spawning multiple windows when clicking a link from apple's email client - only way to stop it is to force quit mozilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181454

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan Greene]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

When I click on a link from my email client (Apple's Mail app), multiple brower
windows are opened. If I don't force quit Mozilla, it will crash the app as it
just keeps spawning new windows. I'm pretty sure I had the same problem when I
would right click a link and choose "open in new window" although I don't want
to test it now, because I'll have to resubmit all this info!

Opening a window in a new tab was never a  problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Tom Schneider]

I agree strongly with the change in severity to critical!

There is another weird thing that is related.  I installed mozilla     
1.2b and then later 1.3.  I moved 1.2b quite out of the way.  After I      
(stupidly) clicked on the pointer to this url from the latest email,  
mozilla went into the infinite loop.  I killed it.  Then I clicked
AGAIN to see what would happen.  To my surprise, I now get version  
1.2b launched.  Right now I have both 1.3 and 1.2b in my Mac's Doc!  I  
cannot understand how the system finds the thing - I've even put it     
into my home directory under the name applications-done.  Of course 
since I'm in the middle of typing this I cannot change the name again
without risk.  This is a horrible bug and WILL CAUSE USERS TO DROP
MOZILLA FOREVER!

Well I copied this message to a vi edit window for safety.  I moved
the old version to /tmp and the system STILL FOUND IT!  That's stupid.
I should be able to keep old versions around in other names without 
them launching.  I am now reporting this using version 1.3a.

ALSO, after one of these crashes, mozilla can take more than a minute
to start up, though sometimes it is shorter.  This would also cause
users to drop it.  I think the time has to do with the number of
windows that get created beforehand, though, again, I can't see why it
should take more than a few microseconds to clear even 20 windows.  

Comment 2

[Tom Schneider]

Can the owner of this bug  please increase the severity of it?
On a mac OS X it makes use impossible to the point of going
back to Netscape.

Comment 3

[Frankie]

This is a dupe of bug 184668. Could someone mark it as such (or give me dupe
permissions)?

Comment 4

[Torben]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181454 ***