297982 - Spawning of numerous blank tabs and new windows when opening C Source

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Vitaly]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Upon loading a C source file with the extension .c, Firefox spontaneously opens
tab after new tab, window after new window, indefinitely. Does not happen in
Linux. Surprising.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load C source in browser
2.wait ~200ms
3.panic

Actual Results:  
Panic.

Expected Results:  
Display the code like usual.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

can you attach a testcase/example ?

Comment 2

[Vitaly]

> can you attach a testcase/example ?
It is simple. execute links in a page which go to various *.c source code files.
For me, it spawns uncontrollable windows.  See if this is only hapeening to me?
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Comment 3

[William Cline]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4

Works for me. If no one else can confirm this problem, this report will be
closed. Here is the file I tried:

http://suif.stanford.edu/suif/suif2/doc-2.2.0-4/examples/pass/test.c

Comment 4

[Vitaly]

It would seem this person's binary of Firefox either had some source changes or
the system was so spyware/virus sabotaged -- there is no hope for him anyway.
This problem remains on his copy of Firefox, and he never uses it anyway. It was
strange nevertheless.