279648 - Firefox opens randomly new tabs, what leads the system to hand and a new window 'netscapedispatchwnd' popping up

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andreas Frische]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0

Firefox opens randomly new tabs, what leads the system to hand and a new window
'netscapedispatchwnd' popping up

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce




i will try to give you a description:
-it happens on load-up of firefox and during work with it. 
-it seems to happen randomly, thus i found it hard to reproduce it
-it seems! to happen only on my user account (never happened on my fathers account)
-the course of event from my memories: 
   1. a new tab is opened; the site accessed changes, but they are all untrustworthy
   2.a new (blank) window labeled "netscapedispatchwnd" is opened 
   3. the system 'hangs' (clicking anywhere on the screen(including the taskbar)
leads to no reaction)
-you might want to take alook at the attached images

i'm working on a w2k-system with firefox 1.0, all security updates from
microsoft, a virus-scanner (antivir), ad-aware with ad-watch. additionally i
regulary run spybot search & destroy.
firefox's extensions are adblock, tabbrowserpreferences, downthemall! and
disable targets for download. 

an easy workaround is to open the taskmanager via ctrl-alt-del and select
firefox from there. it works fine. however there is some 
harddrive activity(coincident?), so i'd recommend closing firefox or the window
'netscapedis...' via the taskmanager ->same result.

maybe you want to google for 'netscapedispatchwnd'. there are a few who semmed
to have that bug,too.

If you have further questions, just ask :)

Comment 1

[Andreas Frische]

Attachment: an image what happens

Comment 2

[Andreas Frische]

Attachment: image showing the bug

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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