adding a new timer-driven function to open a new navigator window. bug 24903 r=ben

suite/browser/navigator.js

@@ -621,7 +621,15 @@ function RevealSearchPanel()
   function BrowserOpenWindow()
   {
     //opens a window where users can select a web location to open
-    window.openDialog( "chrome://navigator/content/openLocation.xul", "_blank", "chrome,modal", appCore );
+    window.openDialog( "chrome://navigator/content/openLocation.xul", "_blank", "chrome", appCore );
+  }
+
+  /* Called from the openLocation dialog. This allows that dialog to instruct
+     its opener to open a new window and then step completely out of the way.
+     Anything less byzantine is causing horrible crashes, rather believably,
+     though oddly only on Linux. */
+  function delayedOpenWindow(chrome,flags,url) {
+    setTimeout("window.openDialog('"+chrome+"','_blank','"+flags+"','"+url+"')", 10);
   }
   
   function createInstance( progid, iidName ) {