crashing, and unpredictable behaviour

[pjk]

These are likely two separate bugs. Firefox crashes when I close a tab. No error messages are given. It crashes at random times for no reason at all, but that is less common than the tab closing bug.

Also, a second bug is that right-clicking on a link should only bring up a menu. Instead I get all manner of unpredictable results. At any given moment, a right click on the same link could bring up a menu, it could launch a new window, it could ask me to bookmark the link, it could launch the link inside a tab. I've gotten all of these behaviours for ordinary links to web pages.

[suman (schakrava)]

Hi,

for completion, could you please provide the following information:
1. Version of ubutu you are running. (lsb_release -d)
2. Version of firefox you are using. (dpkg -l firefox)

I understand that you cannot reproduce your results on demand. But if you could help provide something on those lines it will be helpful. may be there is a link which upon right click always brings up bookmark dialogbox? etc..

Suman.

[pjk (xogblog)]

lsb_release -d gets me "Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1"
dpkg -l firefox gets me Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)||/ Name Version Description+++-==============-==============-============================================ii firefox 3.0.1+build1+n meta package for the popular mozilla web bro

> From: <email address hidden>
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> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:20:53 +0000
> Subject: [Bug 257897] Re: crashing, and unpredictable behaviour
>
> Hi,
>
> for completion, could you please provide the following information:
> 1. Version of ubutu you are running. (lsb_release -d)
> 2. Version of firefox you are using. (dpkg -l firefox)
>
> I understand that you cannot reproduce your results on demand. But if
> you could help provide something on those lines it will be helpful. may
> be there is a link which upon right click always brings up bookmark
> dialogbox? etc..
>
> Suman.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> crashing, and unpredictable behaviour
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257897
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “firefox-3.0” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> These are likely two separate bugs. Firefox crashes when I close a tab. No error messages are given. It crashes at random times for no reason at all, but that is less common than the tab closing bug.
>
> Also, a second bug is that right-clicking on a link should only bring up a menu. Instead I get all manner of unpredictable results. At any given moment, a right click on the same link could bring up a menu, it could launch a new window, it could ask me to bookmark the link, it could launch the link inside a tab. I've gotten all of these behaviours for ordinary links to web pages.

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[suman (schakrava)]

Hi,

regarding the second bug: it seems to be a duplicate. see: 187313. There is a work around.
I am able to reproduce this bug (kind of randomly) on dell d610 laptop. havent tried the workaround yet, but wanted to let you know.

Suman.

[LumpyCustard (orangelumpycustard)]

I suffer from both problems. The latter is most well documented so I will duplicate the 2nd one. The first problem is also well known, but because it crashes on random things, no-one yet has managed to pin point what's causing it. No need to open another bug for it.