65714 - Mozilla goes to user home page when opening new window with javascript

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 65993

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Joseph Wang]

When mozilla is asked to open a new window as a result of a javascript 
command, the new window appears to first try to load the user's home page
before openning the page that has been requested.

This can create a very confusing set of dialog boxes if there is something
special about a users home page (i.e. it is a https page)

To reproduce.

1) set your home page to https://www.gnacademy.org/
2) try to submit a bug for mozilla under bugzilla using the link from
   http://www.mozilla.org
3) when you press the button that causes the user login page to appear you
   should trigger the bug that causes multiple dialogs for self-signed CA's.

This shouldn't happen at all.  mozilla should go straight to the new window
without touching https://www.gnacademy.org/

Comment 1

[Peter "jag" Annema]

With which build are you seeing this?

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

was also reported in bug 11131

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I just saw this on www.netscape.com (with the "Get Netscape 6" popup).  Linux
build 2001-01-16-08.  My homepage is https:, so I got two alerts
(entering/leaving secure site)...

Make sure to remove any .netscape.com cookies you have so that you can reproduce it.

setting status to NEW, and over to networking

Comment 4

[Peter "jag" Annema]

Hrm, that is strange. Viewed from navigator.js, the URL passed in through the
window's parameters property is loaded at the end of the function Startup,
called at onload. Other than that, no URL is loaded.

Could one of you try commenting out these two lines (near line 467):

    if (startPage)
      loadURI(startPage);

and see what happens? Make sure you zip the new navigator.js back up in comm.jar
or know how to edit installed-chrome.txt to by-pass the JAR files.

Comment 5

[Dave]

I've been seeing this on http://www.cnn.com online surveys using recent builds.
I just now reproduced it on the main page voting in the survey about the
baseball hall of fame.
The popup window loaded with the results and then loaded my user home (slashdot)
_after_ the survey results so that I ended up with the small window containing
the slashdot.org homepage in it instead of the intended page.

2001011608/Mtrunk/Linux

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 65993 might be related (window.open("") loads home page instead of 
about:blank).

Comment 7

[Peter "jag" Annema]

See bug 65993 for an explanation of what's going on. Fixing that should fix this
bug, marking this depending on it.

Comment 8

[benc]

mass move, v2.
qa to me.

Comment 9

[mandrake]

confirmed in build 2001070508 under linux

Comment 10

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Reassigning to alecf, he's recently been working on this.

Comment 11

[selmer (gone)]

Vishy, who is covering for alecf during his sabbatical?  This bug may be causing
an activation problem that Bhuvan is investigating.  Did anyone try jag's
suggestion?

Comment 12

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

Blake's reading Alec's bugmail. Now all the bugs mentioned here that this could
be a dup/depends of seem to be fixed. Is this bug itself also fixed? 

Comment 13

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Why does this bug have a future TM?
If I am not mistaken, this is the one of the worst bugs I have
seen. In my experience with the builds from past several days
including 7/18/2001 Win 32 branch build, not only I get the
home page when I click on certain links in mail msgs but also
when I click on a web link. The problem occurs often enough
that I think this would be a bug to fix before shipping the next
major release from the NS branch.

Comment 14

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

What makes this problem a show stopper for me is that sometimes, 
the homepage opens **permanently** rather than the intended link.

Comment 15

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

I'll go over and talk to Kat about this one. 

Comment 16

[/\/\arcio Galli]

Kat, the problem we are having right now, it's not only with JavaScript. I know
that you know this, so my question is.. is this the proper place?

Comment 17

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Marcio, you are right. The problem is not specific to JS. 
Let's open a new bug for it. I will write one and cc every one on
this bug on it.

Comment 18

[jag (Peter Annema)]

This sounds very much like a dupe of bug 65993. Marking it such.

Kat, could you verify that this is indeed fixed?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65993 ***