291871 - Browser ceases to open new windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 309775

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Will Budreau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

During usage, FireFox will intermittently cease to open new windows as requested.
At least, as far as I can tell.

When I close all visible windows, the firefox process is still running, and
attempts to start a new window from the desktop shortcut appear to have no effect.

After killing the process I am again able to create a new window (on a new process)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Scott Davis]

This started happening to me too - straight after upgrading from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3.

none of popups, javascript new window, links, external programs, ctrl-N or
File/New Window work.

Comment 2

[Will Budreau]

Same thing has occurred while in Safe Mode.
I tried uninstalling and re-installing (1.0.3) - no luck.

When I have no windows visible, the only seems to be to kill the Firefox process
and start it up again.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Tim Hunt]

I am seeing this with Firefox 1.5 Beta 1.

I getting this with any firefox 1.0 versions.

In my application, it happens on about the 20th time that you try to open a new
window. In my application, the user clicks on a <button type="button"
onclick="some_js_function(...);"> and in some_js_function() there is a
window.open(...) call.

The error I get in the javasript console is:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMJSWindow.open]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
http://pclt136.open.ac.uk/edit/common/editservices.js :: editThing :: line 266"
 data: no]

Comment 5

[Tim Hunt]

Further information:

Now testing on the publicly available site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4307538.stm

Click on the "Enlarge Image" link under the picture. 

The link stops working the 13th time I cick on it. 

For my colleague, it stopped working the 12th time he clicked on it.

My other colleague who is still using 1.0.6, he was able to open the pop-up at
least 40 times.

In all cases of failure, we see simmilar errors in the Javascript Console.

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This seems to be hitting the dom.popup_maximum pref (default 20) and the page
script throws because window.open fails.  This is by design, and this is a dupe
of other bugs on the subject.

Comment 7

[s.marshall]

Er... but we're closing the window each time. Surely it shouldn't continue to
count towards the maximum after you close it. There aren't 20 windows open *at
once*, just one after another.

Comment 8

[tupub]

(Sorry for mistakes, i'm not english)

The bug is still in Firefox 1.5 beta 2...

At the Xth opening of a dialog with "window.open", a bug occurs and the window
cease to be open :

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMJSWindow.open]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
http://localhost/optifis/s_optifis.asp :: OnBtnListeClick :: line 265"  data: no]

I use the window I want to open like a modal dialog. So this dialog is open to
add or modify a record. (frequently open with javascript events before and after
opening)

Comment 9

[Francis Chin]

Dupe of bug 309775?

(Yes I know this bug came first, but 309775 has all the action...)

Comment 10

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 309775 ***