311857 - User requested pop-ups breaking in 1.5b2 after a few minutes

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 309775

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael P. McHugh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

I have to keep re-launching Firefox 1.5 b2, because after a few minutes of
surfing, user-requested javascript popups just stop working. Re-launching fixes
this but it comes back soon thereafter.

Here's one of our client sites: http://www.colgincellars.com/

After a while the pop-ups stop working, and the javascript console shows this error:

Error: [JavaScript Error: "uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned
failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMJSWindow.open]" nsresult:
"0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame ::
http://www.colgincellars.com/include/scripts.js :: NewWindow :: line 15" data: no]"]

In this case, what were previously sized pop-ups open in the same window. I've
seen other cases where nothing happens at all. I'll post the URL and error when
I encounter one like that again.

Here's another from CNN when trying to click on one of their video "WATCH" links
— looks like the same error

Error: [JavaScript Error: "uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned
failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMJSWindow.open]" nsresult:
"0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame ::
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/.element/ssi/js/1.3/main.js :: CNN_openPopup :: line 191"
data: no]"] 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. browse a few sites for a while with user-requested pop-ups, like cnn.com
2. afer a few minutes, they stop working.
3. errors appear in the javascript console

Actual Results:  
I have to quit and restart Firefox to regain operable pop-ups.

Expected Results:  
user-requested pop-ups should always work

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See Bug 309775.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

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

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 312524 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***