285556 - Closing one tab can cause Firefox to close without warning

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[4w29q8c02]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

On rare occasion, when I have several tabs open and then close one tab, Firefox
closes without warning.  I have the preference set to enable the warning dialog
about closing a window with multiple tabs. 

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse two sites in one window with one site in each tab
2. Close one tab by clicking the red x
3. Firefox will close without warning

Actual Results:  
I could not intentionally reproduce the problem even on the sites where it
originally happened.  It occurs rarely and at random.

Expected Results:  
When one tab out of several is closed, Firefox should not close.  If the red x
to close the window is accidentally clicked, Firefox should give a warning
dialog about closing a window with multiple tabs.

I have obseverved that with two tabs open, when I close one tab the previous tab
sometimes (about 5% of the time) goes "back" one page, in version 1.0 as well as
1.0.1.

Comment 1

[neilr8133]

"Me too!"

One of my users also reported the red tab-close "x" periodically closing the
whole window, but have not been able to confirm it with my own eyes.  When I
asked about the "closing-one-tab-causes-another-to-go-'Back'" behavior they said
they thought they'd seen it happen, but couldn't be positive.  (I've asked them
to keep an eye out for it.)

However, while retracing their steps I discovered Bug #286152--any possibility
these are connected?  (Doesn't seem likely, but thought I'd ask.)


The machine has  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Comment 2

[neilr8133]

I saw it manifest today, reproducable on this machine after rebooting.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0


Open a new tab with
[http://genealogy.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.intersurf.com%2F%7Ercollins%2Fnames.html]
(remove the []'s).  When you click on the red 'x' the icon stays depressed for a
moment, then all windows/tabs close.

I could not easily reproduce on a machine with
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225
Firefox/1.0.1
On the other machine, the 'x' depresses for a moment, but then the correct tab
closes.

Comment 3

[John Whitten]

I can confirm this bug. Recommend changing the severity to 'Major' as it makes
it very difficult to use Firefox normally.


I am running Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.6)
Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

I have recently started having the problem listed in this bug report. I have not
had this problem on other platforms, and I don't think I had the problem on this
current platform until I added the bookmarks synchronizer extension. I'm not
blaming the extension, but I had not noticed the problem before, if it existed
previous to that. I have been running the new "Mandriva" (Mandrake) 10.2 x86_64
version of Linux. I have been running Firefox on it for a couple of weeks before
I installed the bookmarks synchronizer today.


After it happened a few times I ran it from the command line to see if it was
outputting anything unusual. Here is a capture of the output it generates:

WriteReady
Write
Destroy
The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 504 error_code 166 request_code 144 minor_code 2)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


I tried running it with the '--sync' option like it said, but no difference in
the outcome.

Comment 4

[timeless]

did you do;
./firefox -d gdb -g --sync

(realistically, if you're using a nightly build, you'll need to do some work to
make gdk_x_error crash so that talkback provides a stack trace)

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 7

[hinesdouglas20365]

I believe that onetab is a rouge program used to log information from your computer. I have sent it to Avast! to confirm this information. It installs automatically when you download and install a certain program. I believe the program is a webcam application. Use caution when playing with this tab.