109046 - Ctrl-clicking on forum URLs sometimes reload current page

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[r.navalinskas]

Ctrl-clicking on forum URLs sometimes reload current page.

Build: 2001110703 on Win2000 Pro.

Steps: go to http://lt.telebasket.com/forum.asp?PageNum=1&id=12,
Ctrl-click (if you set up it to open new tab) on one of forum message links. New
tab is created, but current page also reloads. Stopping its loading manually and
Ctrl-clicking other URLs works fine. Btw, I configured loading URLs in background.

Comment 1

[r.navalinskas]

This problem is still seen on Build ID: 2001122908

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

The page in question sets up 'window.onresize = someFunc;' where someFunc()
does 'window.location.href = window.location.href' unless innerWidth and 
innerHeight are the same as the original values. 

When you ctrl-click on a link in that page, before a second tab is showing, 
then the creation of the tab bar triggers the onresize (which trigger a 
reload).

The page author is getting the behaviour they requested (this is a bona fide 
resize event after all). The resize on reload is an old Nav4.x kludge for 
dhtml pages, which isn't required with mozilla. 

This is not a bug in mozilla. We have to issue a resize event when the tab bar 
appears and it's up to the page author to do what they like with it. In this 
case, it's mostly harmless that the page is reloaded.