401485 - Firefox window having open tabs for secure connection closes inadvertently when iconified

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Philippe Lebourg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

Looking on eBay for materials to be followed with my-eBay, I several times wanted to switch to some other activity and tried to iconify the window. When looking at the task bar, I noticed that the window had not been iconified but purely closed.
This happens seemingly specifically on secure connections, at least with eBay. When non-secure pages are opened on other windows, these stay open. When the tabs include both secure and non-secure links, if the window is iconified with a non-secure link on top, the iconification is successful, else the window is closed.
TIA.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open eBay in secure connection
2. iconify the window
3. see the window is no more active in the task bar
Actual Results:  
Window with secure connection gets lost. Connection stays open if Firefox not completely closed by the same time.

Expected Results:  
Firefox window in the task bar.

Leave the window in the task bar whatever the status of the connection if iconification asked for.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Still visible with Firefox 3.5.7 or 3.6RC2?

Comment 2

[Philippe Lebourg]

Been a while without using eBay on my home computer. As far as I remember of recent work, I've only been using Firefox3.5 with Linus, not with Windows under which I rather stay with SeaMonkey (2.0). I didn't encounter troubles recently while browsing eBay with either of these.
I'll try to bring a better status soon.
Rgds,
PhL

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

If you can still see this problem with the latest release of Firefox feel free to reopen.