295469 - Will not handle open link in new window through contextual menu or javascript

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Franka T. Lieu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Whatever the site, if selecting the link using right click  ( Apple-Click ) and
select open link to new window. The action will see the browser do load
something but the new window never appear but a single entry ( totally empty )
will appear under the Window menu item, but not accessable ( you can click on
this empty entry but nothing happen ) This action is same if the link is a
Javascript instructing the broweser to open link in new window.

After which the browsere will work normally but will not quit ( cannot shut dowm
these invisibl;e windows ? ) and must use OS X force quit to end the browser

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Any site, got a link
2. Right click and open link in new windows
3. said problem replicated, nothing shown on screen

Actual Results:  
as nothing happended, until you try to quit, then the user must force quit the
browser

Expected Results:  
Just open a new window which is accessable and

The OS X version is 10.1.5 on my iBook and the current Tiger on my powerbook.
Both 1.04 version of Traditional Chinese and British english build of the
firefox shown same behaviour

Comment 1

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

What extensions do you have installed?  Is this a dup of bug 271476?

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM.