251575 - Automatic launch of browser launches an inactive browser titled NaN

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246078

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Frédéric Mercille]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

Webshots is an application that displays nice pictures as the background of the
user's desktop, and it has daily photos. An option lets you know of new daily
photos with a small pop-up bubble by the icon tray, and clicking on the bubble
launches your web browser to the daily photos page.

I have Firefox set as my default browser, so when I click, Webshots launches
Firefox. However, 2 browser are launched instead of 1. One of the browsers loads
the correct page and works ok, while the second browser loads fullscreen (not
maximized, but it always take all the space there is on my screen : I have
dual-monitors, and the browser goes from the top left corner of one monitor to
the bottom right corner of the second monitor). That second browser has "NaN" in
the title bar and is totally inactive. No matter what I do, it doesn't react. I
tried typing an URL directly in the address bar and it didn't load, I tried
clicking on my bookmarks and it didn't work. It is a totally dead instance.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. With Webshots Desktop installed, when the "new daily photos" bubble appears,
click on it.
2. Observe 2 instances of the browser being launched.
3. Try to get the "NaN" browser to load a webpage.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246078 ***