784093 - Creating 50 or so new blank tabs makes Firefox crash badly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Hello,

Win Vista, Firefox 14.0.1.

I was creating many blank Firefox tabs, in order to reproduce a little bug in Firefox — which I will not file, given my mood now. Oh, not 5000, about 50. But supposed to be *empty*.
And Firefox crashed badly. At restart, Firefox had lost almost all my tabs. He showed me the restore dialog, but with almost every window having zero tab — which is absurd. This is the bug 696684 I had encountered before on Firefox Mac.
I cannot rely on Firefox to keep my tabs, that's too bad.
Why do Chrome and Safari cleanly restore all my tabs after a crash, and Firefox can't do so reliably ?
On the other hand, only Firefox is capable of restoring my entered form contents.
Making Firefox crash-free, and, in case a crash occurs anyway, restore-reliable, would be great !

Thank you,

Nicolas

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Please provide a crash ID if present. http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Mozilla%20Crash%20Reporter

Comment 2

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Here is my folder "Crash Reports" : see attachment to come.

The big bad crash is the crash before the last one.

Comment 3

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Attachment: Crash Reports

Comment 4

[Scoobidiver (away)]

(In reply to Nicolas Barbulesco from comment #2)
> Here is my folder "Crash Reports" : see attachment to come.
We need a crash ID (bp-...) from about:crashes, not a binary file we can't read.

Comment 5

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

FWIW, the only submitted ID from the zipped Folder is bp-0d2e55ef-ad94-4301-adbf-11ff32120821 ([@ mozilla::plugins::PPluginInstanceParent::CallNPP_SetWindow(mozilla::plugins::NPRemoteWindow const&) ])

Comment 6

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Here I give you the entries I see in "about:crashes" :

bp-7cc31c3c-4cb4-44c0-a378-fd4092120822
bp-0d2e55ef-ad94-4301-adbf-11ff32120821
54f48ae8-02d8-4f2a-82f5-94a19702c5dd
a7c4d189-c2d2-4103-88bc-5383a43df463
9f92f9fa-7ceb-4cd8-b837-3b94b042b5e7
eeb3ed90-3c3a-49ac-9f08-e3ca77c930cc
6f4140d6-50cf-47db-a4a3-c71796358bd9
86584557-053e-44e7-af5b-e82c02fdc12b

By the way, this list in "about:crashes" gives the time of sending instead of the time of the crash, this is weird, and that's why I have difficulties to correlate the listed crashes with the crashes I remember.

Thank you for investigating.

Nicolas

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Nicolas does this still crash using newest firefox, in safe mode?

Comment 8

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #7)

> Nicolas does this still crash using newest firefox, in safe mode?

In Firefox 26, on Win 7, I have created 428 empty tabs, and Firefox is fine. But I did this on a more powerful computer.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

thanks