189646 - Yahoo mail folder page reloads continuously...

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 198751

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[David Barr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

In attempting to read email through a Yahoo on-line account, the email main page
will reload indefinately. The "rand" value in the URL above will change with
each reload. Attempts to click on a link will go to the next page, but ~that~
page will reload indefinately.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Talk to someone with a Yahoo mail account and My Yahoo!
2. From the My Yahoo user's page, click on "Check Email" to go to the Yahoo Mail
main page.
3. Note that the advertising windows and "Inside Yahoo Mail" panels rotate
indefinately.
4. Note that the URL changes indefinately with "rand=" changing values with each
reload.

Actual Results:  
Attempting to read email is useless. I have to use a different browser.

Expected Results:  
The page should only come up once. The reloads should not be happening.

I suspect this has to do with the Java code that Yahoo uses to run the relevant
windows. (Ads and the Tips panels). I don't know Java well enough to suggest
better than that.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Bug 177426 or bug 143810 dupe?

Comment 2

[WD]

This bug has absolutely nothing to do with Java, but leaving until this question
answered:

Reporter: Do you have the Pref set to disallow Javascript from being able to
read cookies?

Comment 3

[David Barr]

Preferences -> Advanced -> Scripts & Plugins -> JavaScript was not allowed to read cookies.

Changing & testing...

The reload behavior has stopped. I suspect that this is a dup of 143810, then.

Thanks for the time and pointers.

Comment 4

[WD]

Prefs were not allowing Yahoo to read cookies
-> INVALID

Comment 5

[David Barr]

The behavior has reappeared. Javascript is set to read cookies, so it's not that.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030325

Comment 6

[WD]

-> INVALID

David: you might be seeing bug 198870

Comment 7

[Frankie]

this should be dupe, not invalid

Comment 8

[Frankie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198751 ***

Comment 9

[WD]

Frankie:   NO.

When this bug was posted, the reporter had a preference set to disallow 
Javascript from reading cookies.    Thus the INVALID resolution.     This bug 
was posted way before bug 198751 even existed.