348734 - Multiple untitled windows are spawned instead of correctly being located in a frameset

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263160

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[zak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060614 Fedora/1.5.0.4-1.2.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.4 pango-text
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060614 Fedora/1.5.0.4-1.2.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.4 pango-text

This problem has persisted across a new machine install with Fedora Core 5. It manifested itself previously on a Fedora Core 2 box with 1.5.0x. I am running the latest Firefox for this platform, 1.5.0.4. Certain sites, like http://www.battrick.org and gmail, when reloaded, cause framed content to spawn new, untitled windows without any chrome, more or less positioned on the screen individually where the frames should be in the frameset. They remain blank, and the title is never anything but "Untitled Window". Reloading the page that spawned them sometimes causes them to disappear, but not always. The pageitself doesn't render at all, and when returned to the foreground after other windows have been placed on top of it, do not replace anything of the content that was in those other non-Firefox windows except for where the chrome is. Closing the parent window leaves the untitled windows there. Closing an untitled window causes Firefox to exit completely. Normal browsing can continue if the untitled windows are ignored, but the parent seldom displays the content correctly afterwards. If it does, the spawned windows disappear.

The only commonality between the previous machine and this one is that they are both AMDs, the previous box was a Duron, this one an Athlon64.

My general usage pattern is multiple main Firefox windows, each with multiple tabs open. It can take anywhere from a few hours to weeks of continuous, uninterrupted browsing for the problem to reappear. I have not yet boiled it down to a reproducible test case scenario. It seems, but I cannot verify this, that iframe content is similarly affected. It is the only reason my Firefox ever gets closed, it runs until it dies, basically. One other thing I should mention is that many of my tabs will contain large images displayed without any html, if you see what I mean.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263160 ***