Has anyone else seen this problem? I've got the latest firefox
Occasionally, if I left click on a link, instead of FF opening the link in the current window, it will open a new window maybe 75% of the size and open the link there. This window has no decoration other than a titlebar. The "main" FF window acts like a program that is hung somewhat.
The nasty thing is that if I click on the X in the upper right corner to close the new child window, it completely kills FF, even if there are several tabs open. I can generally refresh the page and the window goes away and open properly in the main window. It's really annoying and I can't reproduce it at will but it does happen often.
Gordon
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 09:13 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote:
Occasionally, if I left click on a link, instead of FF opening the link in the current window, it will open a new window maybe 75% of the size and open the link there. This window has no decoration other than a titlebar. The "main" FF window acts like a program that is hung somewhat.
That sort of thing is usually down to user-un-friendly webmasters doing annoying things in their authoring.
The nasty thing is that if I click on the X in the upper right corner to close the new child window, it completely kills FF, even if there are several tabs open. I can generally refresh the page and the window goes away and open properly in the main window. It's really annoying and I can't reproduce it at will but it does happen often.
That shouldn't happen, I'd report that as a bug. Just for curiosity's sake, do you get the same thing happening if you close this extra window when using the ALT & F4 hotkeys to close a window? (Make sure the right window is active, first.)
On Sunday, April 01, 2007 1:34 am Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 09:13 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote:
Occasionally, if I left click on a link, instead of FF opening the link in the current window, it will open a new window maybe 75% of the size and open the link there. This window has no decoration other than a titlebar. The "main" FF window acts like a program that is hung somewhat.
That sort of thing is usually down to user-un-friendly webmasters doing annoying things in their authoring.
No, it's definitely a bug related to Fedora's patching of Firefox. I was getting the same thing, but only with the Fedora package version of Firefox; when I installed the official version from mozilla.com, the problem went away. It's definitely something that Firefox is doing, because most of the links I hit it with didn't have target or javascript information at all; they were generic links, which should open up in the same tab.
That shouldn't happen, I'd report that as a bug. Just for curiosity's sake, do you get the same thing happening if you close this extra window when using the ALT & F4 hotkeys to close a window? (Make sure the right window is active, first.)
Yeah, I hit the same problem. According to KDE, there is only ONE Firefox window (the odd one it spawns is simply has the "no character" character in the titlebar), and trying to close it causes Firefox to close. If I hit any link in the window, it goes away and Firefox acts as if no new window was opened.
Here's an odd one for you; I was using Session Saver, and when I restored my session, the spawned window was included in Firefox's history as if the window was not spawned...
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:22:50 -0400 Kelly lightsolphoenix@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, I hit the same problem. According to KDE, there is only ONE Firefox window (the odd one it spawns is simply has the "no character" character in the titlebar), and trying to close it causes Firefox to close. If I hit any link in the window, it goes away and Firefox acts as if no new window was opened.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-March/msg00534.html
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