687390 - New Tab closing issue

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect)

Description

[Oz]

If you open a new tab from a link and (fast) right after that close the current tab it will close the new tab too

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Can you provide some more exact steps to reproduce - I was unable to duplicate...

i.e.
Open Firefox in Safe Mode
Go to www.yahoo.com
Click on a headline
Hit Ctrl + W

Actual results
All Firefox windows close

Comment 2

[Oz]

- go to http://www.neowin.net/news/rumor-iphone-5-press-conference-on-october-5
- in the article make normal/left click on this text/link "the Pocket Gamer web site " 
- after you make the click rapidly close the current tab
- result: the new opened tab will close with the current tab


The issue is in Safe Mode too

Comment 3

[ithinc]

It's not clear how you "rapidly close the current tab". Ctrl + W, Left-click on the tab close button or Middle-click on the tab? Make sure your mouse won't mis-trigger more than one click.

Comment 4

[Oz]

Use only the mouse to do all the steps.

- you click the link in article
- the link is opening in background/new tab
- after you make the click close the current tab from the close button, 1-2 seconds it takes to move the mouse

current and new tab will close


easy to replicate

Comment 5

[Ioana (away)]

Verified as WFM on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110920 Firefox/9.0a1

I tried to reproduce this issue several times with the steps from the previous comment but they still reproduce.

Ryan, could you please try to reproduce this on a fresh profile?
You can learn here how to make a new profile:
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile

Also, please try using the latest nightly.

Comment 6

[Oz]

I have found what is the problem, the issue it's caused by Ad Muncher, it's a conflict with firefox or something like that. 

Can someone install it and confirm?

Comment 7

[Ioana (away)]

Verified on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110920 Firefox/9.0a1

I have installed Ad Muncher on my PC and this issue does reproduce now just as described in comment #4. I couldn't reproduce this issue on other browsers (Chrome, Opera) so I suppose it's a Fx specific conflict.

Comment 8

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Is this still an issue? Has the plugin been updated? Has anyone notified the extension author?

Comment 9

[Ioana (away)]

Verified as WFM with the steps from comment 2 + comment 4 on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20120105 Firefox/12.0a1

This issue doesn't reproduce with the last version of Ad Muncher and Firefox 12 (Nightly).

Comment 10

[Oz]

The issue has been present only in the Nightly builds that had smooth moving tabs from what I remember.

Comment 11

[Andy McKay]

With WebExtensions being the only valid way of doing extensions in Firefox 57, I don't think this bug is still relevant.