348945 - Constantly loading page fails to display if open in two separate tabs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Brandon Mintern]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414

I created a chat feature on a message board which works by sending information every 5 seconds in order to keep the connection open, and if the chat file has changed, the latest info is sent.  Before the latest revision, I could open as many different tabs as I wanted with the chat box on them, and they would all display fine.  Now, only the first tab that is opened displays, and the other one is blank, at least until the connection closes on the first tab, at which point the latter page displays everything properly.  This occurs in both Firefox 1.5.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.13.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://doansdomain.proboards27.com
2. Note the chat box in the upper right
3. Open a new tab, and browse to the same page
Actual Results:  
The box on the new tab is blank. If desired, click Stop in the first tab, and you will now see the chat display properly in the second tab. If you try reloading the first tab, it will no longer display there.

Expected Results:  
The chat should have displayed fine in both tabs.

This problem also occurs when the page is opened in separate windows instead of separate tabs.  I realize that I am probably using a bad method to send the chat info, and I plan on converting it to AJAX soon.  This bug does not really bother me, but it's something that I noticed happen only after upgrading, and the page still works as expected in IE, so I thought it would be helpful to report it.

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

MozillaAS v1.7.x is not supported anymore.
Firefox v1.5.x is not supported anymore.

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?
(or Firefox v2.0.0.14 ?)

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Brandon??

(In reply to Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie) from comment #1)
> MozillaAS v1.7.x is not supported anymore.
> Firefox v1.5.x is not supported anymore.
> 
> Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?
> (or Firefox v2.0.0.14 ?)

Comment 3

[Brandon Mintern]

The page that exhibited the problem I outlined doesn't even exist anymore. I have no good way to test this bug, and I highly doubt that it would exist in the same form that it did back then. The mechanism I was using to display a chat (a constantly-opened TCP connection to the server) is not in common use anymore since the explosion in popularity of AJAX (remember, I filed the bug in 2006!).

I consider this resolved.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I think you mean incomplete, because the testcase  no longer exists.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status