277219 - opening new tab and clicking "home" icon crashes firefox

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Jason Zwolak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

When viewing a web page that sets the icon in the address bar (say newegg.com or
mozilla.org), Firefox crashes when opening a new tab and clicking on the "home"
icon before the "blank page" turns from gray to white.  Perhaps my slow system
(650 megahertz Athlon) makes the problem possible, where a faster system won't
display a new tab with a gray screen for 0.5-1.0 seconds (like my computer
does).  I have to be quick to reproduce this, but I can do it 100% of the time.

My home icon brings me to http://www.google.com

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start firefox
2. go to http://newegg.com
3. press ctrl-t (for a new tab)
4. quickly after the new tab appears, but before it turns from gray to white,
click on the home icon.
5. wait for a second and Firefox will crash (process will terminate, window
disappears).

Actual Results:  
Firefox's processes terminated and the window disappeared.

Expected Results:  
I expected http://www.google.com to load in my newly created tab.

This version of firefox was installed through Fedora Core 3's packaging system
using a command like "apt-get install firefox".  My architecture is i686 and I
have i686 binaries.

Comment 1

[Nagappan]

WFM in Novell Linux Desktop with Firefox 1.0

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Please provide a stacktrace or a talkback id and also try to see if this is
fixed in trunk builds.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
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Comment 4

[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.