Firefox disappears on some tab titles(probably large ones)

[Oliver Kuster]

Binary package hint: firefox

Using:
Ubuntu 10.10 32bit
Firefox 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
google-chrome-beta 9.0.597.19-r68937

Expected to happen:
open link ttp://olhardigital.uol.com.br/produtos/digital_news/noticias/australianos_querem_transmitir_wi-fi_atraves_de_antenas_de_tv normally in browser

What happens instead:
On some pages, for example http://olhardigital.uol.com.br/produtos/digital_news/noticias/australianos_querem_transmitir_wi-fi_atraves_de_antenas_de_tv firefox disappears, and reappears with BAD GATEWAY

On chrome something similar happens, the windows restores and the taskbar button disappears.
When changing tabs on chrome, the taskbar button reappears and the window can be maximized again.

This is probably some bug in GTK...and not firefox, though I did not know what package to report.

I searched for something similar but did not find anything, if this is a duplicate I'll be happy to add information to the original bug report.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: firefox 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 18 00:22:58 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Oliver Kuster (olivervbk)]

I'm sorry that I posted a link to a third party site. Even though it is in portguese, I am not affiliated with the website nor what to promote it. It is just the most recent link in which I've noticed the bug. I tried (shortly) to reproduce with a google search but or didn't use the right title or it is not affected.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[David W. A. (beloved88)]

It also does it for www.en-kh.com, a Khmer-English dictionary that I use everyday, regardless of the browser used. This makes Ubuntu UNUSABLE!!!!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[David W. A. (beloved88)]

Hey! I think I'm onto the root cause. If you do a simple google search for the word "trans" you get the EXACT SAME PROBLEM. I went digging around in CCSM and found that the window decorator plugin and the window rules plugin were both looking for "trans" in the window title and then doing strange things to those windows. This seems like it would be incredibly inconvenient for anyone doing any kind of translation work to have there web browser constantly disappearing on them. I suggest this problem be promoted and resolved as quick as possible

[David W. A. (beloved88)]

Current workaround:
in CompizConfig Settings Manager: Turn "Window Rules" off. Edit "Decorate Windows" so that everywhere you see 'trans' you replace it with something else you're not likely to come across on the web. I think there is a cleaner way of doing this without loosing functionality, but I'm lost

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Sounds like a bug in compiz, not in the browsers.