weird firefox crash with suspected 'popups'.

[dragoran]

Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> Rodd Clarkson wrote:
>> Hmmm,
>>
>> I've seen the following a couple of times and I'm wondering whether
>> others have also noticed this.
>>
>> Every now and then I do a refresh (at least I think I'm refresh) of a
>> page in Firefox and it opens the current page in a new window, without
>> any of the usual page trimmings (like navigation, bookmarks, etc).  Much
>> like a javascript window.open would do with just the bare necessities.
>>
>> When I close this unexpected window, firefox crashes, wiping out all
>> firefox windows.  However, a couple of times I've noticed small firefox
>> windows behind this window that I know I haven't opened and that look
>> suspiciously like what I would imagine would be in a pop-up window if I
>> saw one (I only use filefox, so any pop-ups are rare to say the least).
>
> I have seen something a lot like that.  I noticed that someone 
> reported similar in mozilla's bugzilla:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336646
>
> It used to happen much more frequently for me about a year or two ago, 
> but even in firefox 2.0, I still occasionally see it.  (I don't use 
> the fedora rpms in this case.)  I've at least learned to not kill the 
> window!  But once I do see it, it's time to think about restarting 
> firefox.
>
> reid
>
I have seen this sometimes too... try refreshing again and the window 
might disapaer (happend for me but not always). I had no idea how to 
fill this bug too.