[Reloadevery] ReloadEvery eventually crashing FireFox?

[Jaap Haitsma]

Paul Hands wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone else observed this behaviour?
> 
> I'm running FireFox 1.0.6, with ReloadEvery 0.6.1 on SuSE Linux 9.3 on 
> an IBM Thinkpad..
> 
> I run ReloadEvery with a 30 second update period on a given web site - 
> e.g. the SCOX message board at
> 
> http://messages.yahoo.com/?action=q&board=SCOX 
> <http://messages.yahoo.com/?action=q&board=SCOX>
> 
> Usually I run it in a tab, with the MSFT message baord in another, and 
> both updating every 30seconds or every minute.
> 
> After quite a long time, (24 or more hours) apparently dependent on the 
> update frequency, instead of the page refreshing as normal, it spawns a 
> new window on the same page, but without the firefox icon at top left.  
> Instead of the firefox icon, it has the standard X-Windows purple X 
> icon.  If I close that new window, all FireFox windows vanish, but it 
> doesn't go into the automatic bug reporting/feedback stuff.  The new 
> window is still usable - if I click on an embedded hyperlink in it, it 
> usually works, and the window goes back to normal (FireFox Icon, etc), 
> but the problem usually recurs after a few minutes.  Closing the new 
> window always completely kills FireFox.
> 
> I've only seen it happen with ReloadEvery, but it could just be that 
> that's because I would not normally manage that number of page reloads 
> manually, and that FireFox itself is at fault, but I don't know how to 
> find out.
> 
> Any clues?  Should I bugzilla it against FireFox or ReloadEvery, or both?
> 
Weird bug, haven't heard of anyone experiencing this. Unfortunately it's 
also a bug which is hard to debug if it only happens after more then 24 
hours. I'll take a look at it sometime, though

Jaap