closing a tab while browsing results in closing browsing completely

[mausje75]

When you are browsing on the internet ( using native browser ) and you have multiple tabs open... then close 1 tab... then the browser closes completely. You have to start up internet again.

[John McAleely (john.mcaleely)]

Can you supply further information? What version of Ubuntu is running on what device, and which internet sites are you browsing?

On my tablet, I do not see this effect.

[mausje75 (mausje75)]

Hi. It is running Frieza. It is the BQ tablet. Aquaris M10. It has the latest update.

When i am browsing.... And have multiple tabs open, then i close one tab (doesn't matter which one ) the browser shuts down completely. Wether it is on desktop or tablet modus. It is kinda annoying... want to throw the tablet through the room sometimes.... When it happens 5 times in an hour.

[John McAleely (john.mcaleely)]

I'm afraid you will need to provide a detailed way to reproduce. I suspect you need to start with rebooting the tablet, and then listing the websites you browse to.

One possibility is that this is a memory-pressure problem, so the sites you visit may be key to reproduce it.

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

I see this also on BQ M10 including on OTA-12 current rc-proposed. There is no reliable to way to reproduce that I can find, but if I open multiple tabs and then close 1 of them there is a chance that it closes the whole browser. I don't think the browser is crashing, because I don't see crash reports listed that correspond.

This is also mentioned in #1595348

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bob Harvey (bobharvey)]

I have had this problem in OTA11 & OTA12.. It is very frequent, and among the reasons I stopped usingvthe M10 tablet.. I had to dig it out today, and it is no better yet.. It has done cit at least 6 times this evening, and there seems no one particular pagecor site involved.

[Bob Harvey (bobharvey)]

The site Sci gegularly use are:
WWW.geograph.organized.uk
WWW.face book.cmm
WWW.mail.com
WWW.BBC.co.uk/news
WWW.twitter.com

But it has happened after visiting WWW.rot13.com ; WWW.it.com ; WWW.girlgenius.com ; https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/uk.rec.sheds ;

[Bob Harvey (bobharvey)]

Wretched ubuntvautocorrect.. WWW.it.com should be WWW.itv.com

[Bob Harvey (bobharvey)]

I have had to unbox my BQM10 tablet (OTA12) again, as my iPad has failed. I (can) only use it for web browsing, and the almost continuous crashing of the browser is very irritating.

I can induce it by closing the last tab 3 times out of 5, and by closing the 2nd of 3 almost every time.

[Pierre C (pchh)]

The browser crashes several times an hour upon closing a tab, but it not reproducible, afaik. That's very irritating. What can I do to help ?