254208 - listbox popup with google search history outside firefox window when clicking on certain links

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 253709

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Thorsten Peter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040802 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX-AV)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040802 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX-AV)

With recent branch builds i started experiencing the following behaviour,
related to google web site and/or search bar history:

having at least 1 element in the google search or firefox google searchbar
history, i closed down FF. My home page for FF is www.google.com. After starting
FF again, clicking on the FF icon at the upper right FF window corner, to get to
firefox product page, then clicking on the "SUPPORT" link, the mentioned listbox
appears just left of the upper left corner of FF window. It contains my previous
google search items, the google search history. you can even click on those
terms, which leads to a FF crash.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. clean FF install, 20040802 branch build
2. set home page to "www.google.com"
3. use the search bar, to search for 3-4 search terms, one after the other, so
some search term history is saved
4. close firefox, restart firefox
5. click on the FF symbol in the upper right corner of FF window to get to
firefox product page
6. click on the "SUPPORT" link on firefox product page

-> strange listbox containing your google search term history should appear

Actual Results:  
appearance of a listbox with google search term history, detached from main FF
window, click on one of the search terms will even crash FF

Expected Results:  
not pop up that listbox mentioned above, not crash firefox

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 253709 ***