314810 - randomly opens browser window contents in separate X window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 244482

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Raul Acevedo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050927 Fedora/1.0.7-2.1.fc4.nr Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050927 Fedora/1.0.7-2.1.fc4.nr Firefox/1.0.7

Since Firefox 1.0.7, after it has been running for a while (hours or days), Firefox will open a new window or tab... in a completely new, separate X window.  It won't use a "real" browser window (as if I hit Ctrl-n), but it's a standalone X  window, that should've been displayed in the browser window.

Basically it looks like FF created a new X11 window and put all its contents in it.  The original browser window is blank (or empty, I forget).  This just happened to me with a URL with frames, on a brand new tab.  On existing browser window, I:

* Hit Ctrl-t to open a new tab
* Went to a URL that uses frames
* All of a sudden several new X11 windows showed up, each representing one of the frames in the frameset.  None of these windows has the usual menu bar, buttons, etc.; in fact I don't think they even had the normal window manager decorations.

After this happens, either Firefox crashes, hangs, or it somewhat continues to work but obviously I have to restart it.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Not reproducible at will.  Eventually, after running for many hours or days, it is likely to happen.



Fedora Core 4, Firefox 1.0.7.

Comment 1

[Gero Mudersbach]

I can confirm this bug, it has shown up with Deer Park and Firefox 1.0.7 on Fedora Core 4 and Gentoo Linux. If I close the seperate x window the browser quits. Sometimes I just wait and don't use that x window and then it disappears after some time. Then everything works as expected. Sometimes it doesn't disappear and then the browser crashes wihout any message (gui). I notice that this mostly happens when I am using tabbed browsing (have multiple tabs opened and closed while I was browsing).

Comment 2

[Gero Mudersbach]

Attachment: Screenshot of seperate X window

Comment 3

[Gero Mudersbach]

Raul, are you using a special GTK theme or is it standard fedora core? Are you using KDE or Gnome? I noticed some applications have problems with gtk-themeing in conjunction with qt. Since I am using my KDE styles for GTK applications I thought it could also have something to do with that.

Comment 4

[Raul Acevedo]

Using Fedora Core 4, GNOME 2.12, themes from art.gnome.org (I forget exactly which and I won't be back at work until Monday).

Comment 5

[Jason]

*** Bug 316626 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Jason]

I can confirm this bug also of firefox 1.5 RC2, I'm using kde 3.4.2 as well as X11 6.8.99 on suse 10.0

Comment 7

[dolphinling]

*** Bug 318229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Jukka Holappa]

I can confirm this bug as well on a Gentoo system with
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Firefox/1.5

.. and with Firefox 1.0.7 on the same system.

Sometimes frames/iframes inside the pages also appear as separate windows as well as the page itself.

I use Gnome 2.10.2 with default theme.

Comment 9

[Raul Acevedo]

Is anyone looking at this bug?  It's a pretty annoying bug.

Comment 10

[Björn Steinbrink]

Another screenshot that IMHO shows the problem a little better can be found at http://www.13thfloor.at/~doener/fx-screen.png
The red-bordered frame on the right belongs into the area on the right of the page. That area is not redrawn by Firefox. I experienced this issue on Debian (Sid, sometime ago...) with GNOME as well as FVWM 2 and on Gentoo with FVWM. Using various GTK Versions and Themes (including whatever is the default theme).

Comment 11

[Danek Duvall]

This appears to be a dup of bug 244482.  I don't seem to be able to close it as such.

Comment 12

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to comment #11)
> This appears to be a dup of bug 244482.  I don't seem to be able to close it as
> such.

How did you confirm it, then?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 244482 ***