291847 - popup stop doesn't work, firefox hangs, needs killall firefox-bin

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 167475

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Alex B]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050419 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050419 Firefox/1.0.3

http://gentoo-get.on.nimp.org/ opens popups then makes firefox lockup, it need a
kill from the terminal, popup stopper doesn't work, on a windows machine with
IE6 it opens popups and says "HEY EVERYBODY I LIKE GAY PORN", Firefox should
block the popups

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. opened http://gentoo-get.on.nimp.org/ and it crashed


Actual Results:  
opened popups then locks up

Expected Results:  
prevent the popups from opening

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you get the same if you open firefox in the safemode ?
BTw: crash!=hang/freeze

Comment 2

[Alex B]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Do you get the same if you open firefox in the safemode ?
> BTw: crash!=hang/freeze
> 

safemode ? haven't tried it, did anyone get the same results i did ? i'll be
away until wensdays

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

bug 334426 has a little more info, plus the "lastmeasure" junk has morphed a bit from this example so the newer bug is more appropriate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 334426 ***