271563 - crash after browsing with many tabs when trying to open PDF link here

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mh406]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041119 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041119 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-3)

When I have been browsing with one window for a while (it doesn't happen if I
just load the browser and try, but it does reliably if I've been browsing with
lots of tabs open for more than an hour and then try), going down to one tab
containing the given URL and clicking a link that leads to one of the PDFs makes
the browser close suddenly.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse using one or more Firefox windows for several hours.
2. Close all tabs on one window except the tab containing the given URL.
3. Click on one of the links to papers.

Actual Results:  
Browser closed (also closes all other open windows, which is more irritating).

Expected Results:  
Brought up a dialog box asking me if I wanted to open the file or save it.

The program closes 'cleanly' - i.e. it doesn't do any Talkback or complain at
all, it just closes.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.