535831 - "New Window" crash after Firefox is open for an amount of time (undetermined so far)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 530567

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Williams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2b3) Gecko/20091115 Firefox/3.6b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2b3) Gecko/20091115 Firefox/3.6b3

After Firefox has been open for some amount of time, which has yet to be determined, anything that creates a new window causes a crash.

For example, when clicking a link that opens a new (small) window to ask for a password, the application crashes. Upon reopening, the same link works fine, leading me to believe that it is time-dependent or a condition that is due to being open for long periods of time.

Also occurs when dragging a tab out into its own window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Leave Firefox open (a few hours should do it, I usually have it open all day).
2. Open a new window, click a link that spawns on, or detach a tab.
3. Crash!
4. After reopening Firefox, the issue disappears.
Actual Results:  
Crash.

Expected Results:  
It is expected that the new window opens successfully.

It may be important that my home directory is not on the system drive. My home directory is /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/chris/ and /Users/chris is symlinked to it. Next time the crash occurs, I will include a stack trace and other such information.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

If you can include the crash ID from about:crashes that would be helpful.

Comment 2

[Chris Williams]

Here is the link to the crash report: http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-f6d096ee-974b-4344-b29f-5d2f12091218

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Chris: This looks to be a dupe of Bug 530567. But I will note your STR in that bug since they may be able to enlighten the devs as to what might be going on.