closing when switching away using alt-tab

[Andrew Manson (real_ate)]

Binary package hint: firefox

just so that it is noted, when i say alt-tab that keyboard shortcut is set to the windows like cycle through programs.

the problem is that when a firefox window is open going to another program using alt-tab causes all open windows to close. i origonaly thought that it would have something to do with the web interface of gtalk but i'm not sure. i first noticed this problem when i alt-tab'ed from firefox to konversation but then again when i alt-tab'ed to kopete.

i'm running kde on ubuntu 7.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 30 22:36:11 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.3+1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux real-ate-laptop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Tagging as needtester

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

I cannot reproduce that behavior with gnome/metacity will try with other window managers though. Andrew please, can you tell us which Desktop/WM are you using?

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

I wasn't able to reproduce it on gnome/beryl; not tested with compiz though

[Kier Heyl (kierheyl)]

I'm running into the same problem running kubuntu. It doesn't happen very often, I use ubuntu at work so for 8 hours a day I'm alt tabbing between browser and text editors and graphics programs etc. and it happens roughly once or twice a day. It would some times happen repeatedly 3 or 4 times in five minutes. Some times it wouldn't do it for days. I'm running Fire Fox 1.5.0.11 and Kubuntu Dapper Drake. If there's any more information you could use let me know, I'm a bit of a linux newbie. I just want my firefox to stop closing randomly. It's really anoying!

[mohan (kaveraj)]

I am facing the same problem on firefox 2.0.0.11 on dapper. I know this is a difficult bug to resolve due to the inconsistency in reproducing it. Even in my machine, the bug occurs more frequently at some times than others (in the past 3 hours, it has crashed 4 times). Will post more information if available. Trying to switch to firefox 3 beta and see if the bug exists still.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 07:14:41AM -0000, mohan wrote:
> I am facing the same problem on firefox 2.0.0.11 on dapper. I know
> this

dapper doesn't have 2.0.0.11 ... so you aren't using the ubuntu
package?

> is a difficult bug to resolve due to the inconsistency in reproducing
> it. Even in my machine, the bug occurs more frequently at some times
> than others (in the past 3 hours, it has crashed 4 times). Will post
> more information if available. Trying to switch to firefox 3 beta and
> see if the bug exists still.
>

please try to disable your extensions. Those are a major cause of
annoyances. If you find the bogus extension let us know.

Thanks,

 - Alexander

[Nathan Handler (nhandler)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[mohan (kaveraj)]

Am using firefox 3.0.1 on ubuntu 8.04 for the past week and have never faced
this issue..
I guess firefox 3 fixes the problem.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Nathan Handler <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
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> closing when switching away using alt-tab
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[Andrew Manson (real_ate) (real-ate)]

I'm the poster of the bug and i do not have any problems with it anymore.
This bug was resolved a long time ago as i have not experienced it since 7.04

[Nathan Handler (nhandler)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.