236800 - crash switching tabs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Anthony Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Switching tabs when pages are not yet loaded often crashes the application,
especially when switching backwards.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Open a new window.
Visit a web site with lots of links
Open links in new tabs
Click on a not-yet-loaded tab, where the previous tab is also not-yet-loaded
Try and switch tabs with ctrl-shift-tab

Actual Results:  
The application crashes

Expected Results:  
Switched tabs

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

On what URL does Firefox crash?
Do you have any extensions installed? If yes, does it still crash when you
disabled them?

Also create a new profile and retest.

Comment 2

[Mark Laws]

Attachment: OS X crash log

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

unable to reproduce with the latest firefox build on windows XP. without more
specific steps to reproduce this bug is worksforme