Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> 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.)
I've seen this behavior too. Usually it occurs after FF has been
running for a while. What's weird is that some link on a site won't
cause a problem when the running copy of FF is fresh. Return to the
site after "a while" and click on the same link again and the problem
occurs. I didn't file a bug since I can't reliably reproduce the
problem. At least it's not as annoying as the old "take all of the CPU"
bug that used to occur with about the same frequency.
Cheers,
Dave
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