Blank error consoles after Firefox update, after system restored from hibernation

[gk]

This bug has an easy work-around: restart the system - blank windows no longer occur. *** Close this bug ? ***
(Further tedious detail in my comment following the attachments. My original report immediately below: ...)

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

At seemingly random times (i.e. I can't reproduce this bug on demand) when I right click on a link a small blank window pops up (instead of the expected context menu). The pop-up window's frame has restore and close buttons (and window title 'Firefox' - to be confirmed - can't reproduce this behaviour right now).

When the pop-up's close button is clicked the pop-up disappears and the expected context menu appears; however, when the context menu's 'Open Link in New Tab' item is clicked the context menu closes but nothing happens (i.e. the hyperlink is not opened in a new tab).

The same blank pop-up displays when menu item 'Help -> About Mozilla Firefox' is clicked - no 'About' info appears when this pop-up's Close button is clicked. This behaviour is (currently) consistent. Perhaps a better bug title would be "Help -> About Mozilla Firefox opens blank window".

My 'Update Manager Commit Log for Fri Apr 24 14:53:07 2009' includes "firefox-3.0 (3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2) to 3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1". This was the last update before this bug manifested - however bug didn't appear until the following day.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 25 09:37:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: hsfengine
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686

[gk (geomonet)]

*** Close this bug ? ***
It appears Firefox has healed itself. The blank error console window (?) described in the bug description no longer occurs.
The problem cleared when the system was restarted a few minutes ago. The system has been put into hibernation each night for a few days in a row; it was put into hibernation (with Firefox open) after the 24Apr2009 upgrade to '3.0.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1'. After the blank error window problem occurred and this bug was raised, Firefox was fully uninstalled then re-installed. The re-installation failed - attempting to run Firefox opened a blank (error console ?) window: the only option was to close the blank window; Firefox didn't start. Restarting the system at this point fixed Firefox. Firefox now starts normally: 'Help > About Mozilla Firefox' reports "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009042113 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.9".

[jtholmes (jtholmes)]

Per reporter, the problem has been fixed