271059 - clicking links in rapid succession when FF is not loaded, can result in broken GUI

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kai de Leeuw]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I use KlipFolio for RSS and usually I click many links fast to get them loaded
in FF. I have the prefs set so that FF should load links in new tabs. But when I
do this, sometimes things go wrong, and the result follows below. I will attach
a screen shot.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. FF is not loaded
2. click two links in KlipFolio in rapid succession

Actual Results:  
I get two windows, one with the broken GUI and one not broken with a webpage
corresponding to one of the links I clicked.

The window with broken GUI looks like this:
1. there is no webpage loaded
2. contains the green update icon
3. the bookmark toolbar is empty, and a right click on the bookmark toolbar
results in a miniscule 4x4 context menu containing zilch.

Expected Results:  
Given me one window with two tabs containing the webpages I was trying to load
by clicking the two links, a fully functional bookmark toolbar and no green
update icon.

Using FF 1.0
Default theme
No extensions

Comment 1

[Kai de Leeuw]

Attachment: Screen shot of broken GUI

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 290948 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

I see this almost every time i reboot my computer and i click on a link that
launches Firefox

--> NEW

Comment 4

[Frank Helk]

I get this result when closing firefox and restart it immediately thereafter;
same result reached by another way. (see Bug 290948)

Comment 5

[Frank Helk]

Some statistics: 

On 2 independent PCs (both WinXP) this bug occurs in about 2 of 3 times I start
Firefox - this is really annoying.

The problem occurs under 2 scenarios:

- Firefox started directly (to blank page)
- Firefox started form another application (clicked link in whatever)

-FH

Comment 6

[Frank Helk]

Further observations:

- The requested page seems to be loaded anyhow, because the task bar shows its
title. When I have clicked more than 1 link, closing the disfunctional window
lets forefox ask if I'm sure that I want to cose all tabs.

- When I open firefox and the bug occurs, the attempt to open an additional
window by starting firefox again leads in almost all circumstances to an
additional AND functional window.

Comment 7

[Frank Helk]

Just installed Firefox 1.0.5 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5).

Bug is not affected by natural self healing powers - it is still there.

Comment 8

[Frank Helk]

Bug still persistent with Firefox 1.0.6.
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Firefox/1.0.6)

Comment 9

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 304518 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Frank Helk]

Just to mention it .... again no self healing .... Bug seems to be persistent even in Firefox 1.07 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7).

Hey - where are the geeks, willing to slam that bug ?

Comment 11

[Frank Helk]

Just an observation:

The problem occurs frequently when I open the first Firefox window (with icon or link). If I open a subsequent window it may - or may not - show the same problem. If I repeat that, I may finally get a functional window (maybe I need 20 or more tries). Alternative, killing the nonfunctional window and reopen might help too - at least after several repetitions.

Firefox seems to load the pages, because if the window gets more than one link (loaded into tabs ...) and I try to close the window, I get the "you have [n] tabs open ..." reminder. Looks like the display components get stuck ....

Comment 12

[Frank Helk]

Not yet undergone long time testing, but looks like it's gone in Firefox 1.5 !
Let's do a prayer ...

Comment 13

[José Jeria]

I haven't seen this bug in a long time. Anyone still see this bug?

Comment 14

[Frank Helk]

(In reply to comment #13)

> I haven't seen this bug in a long time. Anyone still see this bug?

Hmmm - just explicitly tried to reproduce with (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6), didn't occur.

This is IMHO not a proof, but a good omen ....

Comment 15

[Frank Helk]

Attachment: Screenshot with unexpected unfunctional window

Seems to be an effect related to this bug: The shown unexpected, empty Firefox window appears when Firefox is called multiple from another application (a mail client in that case) while starting up (i.e. multiple clicking of a link in the mail client).

Comment 16

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Marking as WFM based on the last couple of comments. If/when you do see this again in a recent version of Firefox, feel free to reopen.