514417 - CTRL-N raises 'Assertion Failed' popup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 427028

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[EBraun]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009080315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.13

On a Ubuntu 8.10, i'm using Firefox 3.0.13ю
Today i had several Firefox windows with several tabs/pages in each (among which Yahoo entry page, and a PDF: fbi.h-da.de/fileadmin/personal/j.wietzke/mein_ordner/DAS_BUCH/Tips_Tricks.pdf), among which one window whose tab address was   http://localhost:5467   : a local service that i hadn’t launched, the tab merely displayed “Failed to connect”  (maybe another tab was open, maybe not).
I focus on this window and type CTRL-N to get a new Firefox window.
Instead, I get the following popup:

Assertion Failed
-------------------------
ASSERT: *** Search: _installLocation: engine has no file!
Stack Trace:
0: ENSURE_WARN(false,_installLocation: engine has no file!,214750037)
1:() 
2:()
3:()
4:epsGetAttr([object Object],hidden)
5:()
6:()
7:currentEngine()
8:get_currentEngine()
9:updateDisplay()
10:init()
11:([object XULElement],9)

and selecting then in the menu: Help -> About Mozilla Firefox, i only get a very small window embryo of, say, 10x20 pixels.

Killing the (only) firefox process and re-launching, i get back all my previous session except for the window i had focused on.
Couldn’t reproduce.


Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Comment 1

[EBraun]

i use a QWERTY keyboard, with an optional cyrillic layout (activated/deactivated with ALT+SHIFT)
maybe the cyrillic layout was active when the bug occurred, but i tried also with it and couldn't reproduce either