45030 - context menu "open link in new window" doesn't stop opening new windows

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 45047

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Waterson]

To reproduce:

1. Go to the this link:

  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25963

2. Right click on the first bugzilla attachment ("first shot at patch to remove
unneeded string conversion") to bring up the context menu.

3. Select "Open Link in New Window".

Expected behavior: link opens in *one* new window.
Actual behavior: browser endlessly opens new windows

I did some experiments: it seems that there is something specific to that bug
report; I tried a couple other bug reports and some random other links, and they
worked correctly.

Comment 1

[Chris Waterson]

Marking "crash" because this is essentially a crash bug (you have to kill the
browser process and restart it). Nominating for "nsbeta2": although I could only
reproduce this on *one* link, it may be indicative of a more serious problem. We
should at least understand what's going on here.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

this also happens on win32 mozilla bits from 071008 on NT.  I was able to stop
the spawning of new windows by pressing the stop button.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

this is probably a dupe of or closely related to the many spawned windows on
File|Open  File bug.   Seems to be specific to text files for win32 at least
(tested on 98 and nt mozilla bits 071008)

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

ok, thesmoketest bug (that I think is the same as this) is bug 45047

Comment 5

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Dup of 45047

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45047 ***

Comment 6

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

verified