251997 - Mozilla suddenly opens dozens of new windows/instances

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[stantonios]

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

Mozilla suddenly opens dozens of new windows

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click any link to open in a new tab


Actual Results:  
Sometimes only: Mozilla will open dozens of new windows with the same link (39
windows were opened the last time this happened)

Expected Results:  
Only open the page once in a new tab or single new window as requested

Comment 1

[dolphinling]

Can you find any way to reliably reproduce this? 

Is it possible you have some other program on your computer (adware or simliar)
that could be the problem? Try scanning it with ad-aware
(http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) if you haven't recently.

Comment 2

[stantonios]

No, I don't have ad ware (I used lavasoft Ad-ware 6). This has happened again
today (over 100 windows opened) and I had to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to stop firefox.
The site was www.copticpope.tv/ -- no ads there at all!

Comment 3

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

What extensions do you have installed? Particularly, do you have any concerning
tabs? If so, try a profile without any extensions installed, if you don't have
them installed globally. How often does this happen?

Comment 4

[Zarco Zwier]

While visiting some crack sites, I got vague xpi installation popups I didn't trust.
Did you accept something of a sort?

Comment 5

[John Dell]

I've never seen this until today...running SuSE 9 Mozilla 1.7.0.  I was loading
www.oaklandathletics.com and the site was very slow to load, so while the page
was still trying to load, I clicked or right-clicked in the page, and all the
sudden new mozilla windows started opening like crazy.  I finally got it stopped
after about 50 windows were opened up.

No extensions installed.

I could not reproduce.  Must be a very rare sequence of events to produce this
problem.

Comment 6

[John Dell]

Another thought, www.oaklandathletics.com has heavy javascript and flash.  I'm
not sure if I clicked a js or flash link, but it appeared that neither the flash
or js stuff was fully downloaded and working when I clicked.  Perhaps that might
help looking into this?

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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