309498 - Opening a new window via JavaScript fails on Firefox 1.0.7 Mac, prevents Quit

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Craig MacKenna]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050727
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0 StumbleUpon/1.999

On the cited page, click on the small "Is this a good time?" link near the end
of the page.  On our system, nothing happens and a Force Quit is needed to get
rid of Firefox.  This operation works on current Mozilla and Camino.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
On the cited page, click on the small "Is this a good time?" link near the end
of the page.
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens and a Force Quit is needed to get rid of Firefox

Expected Results:  
A small window should have opened, containing the current Pacific time and words
about whether it's OK to call now, as with Mozilla and Camino.

Source of the JavaScript routine "caltime" (called for the problem link) is in
http://www.animalhead.com/scripts/e.js.

Comment 1

[timeless]

reporter: run activity monitor, select firefox, click the sample button. if you 
get something that looks pretty then attach that output here.

Comment 2

[Craig MacKenna]

Attachment: Apple incident report

Comment 3

[Craig MacKenna]

Problem only occurs on our Dual Processor G4-1.25 MDD.  Problem does not occur on our Mono Proc 
G4-500.  Same Firefox and OS on both.  Nothing pretty appears on Activity Monitor.  Once you have failed 
to open the window, you can still navigate all over the site and the Internet.  You can do anything except 
Quit, or open the "Is this a good time?" window.  Captured an Apple incident report file and attached it.

Comment 4

[Craig MacKenna]

Problem eliminated by deleting all files and folders with Firefox in their name, reinstalling 1.0.7.  
Presumably caused by "corruption" of preferences or other settings files.  (This is the third Firefox problem 
solved in this way ... never had such a problem with Mozilla!)  ELIMINATE CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES :-)