564182 - click link causes infinite tab openings w/ no apparent end - able to shut down w/ "quit" command

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Powell Barber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

received e-mail newsletter w/ above link.  Upon left-clicking on link, firefox repeatedly opened new tabs, filling up the bar w/ them.  No end observed, but was able to gracefully shut down firefox w/ the quit command.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on link
2.
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Expected Results:  
I presume it should have opened a new tab and displayed a video

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

Works For ME
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; ja; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This happens if you assign a content-type to the firefox application and Firefox can not handle the content-type. You have a loop in such a case.
Do you assigned a helper application to Firefox itself under tools/options/applications ?

Do you have the flip4mac plugin installed ?

The content-type in this case is video/x-ms-wmv

Comment 3

[Powell Barber]

flip4mac was installed.  v2.3.2.6.

when I went to investigate the version via System Preferences -> Flip4Mac, it informed me that there was a newer version.  Once installed, it works, but the preferences panel for flip4mac now reports 2.3.1.2 is installed.  Most confusing.

also, flip4mac preferences was set to check for updates weekly?

Anyway, it would be nice if Firefox could handle this failure a bit more gracefully - assuming that is feasible.  A check on opening N windows in < N seconds perhaps?

Thanks to all.