124264 - Clicking on popup link stops first page from loading to completion

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[osavill]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020421

Clicking on a link on a page that produces a popup window prevents the page from
loading any further. As soon as the popup window starts to load its data the
first page just stops loading any further and the M icon stops animating.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Goto the above URL.
2.While the pictures are still loading click on one of the blue highlighted prices.
3.

Actual Results:  The popup window appears and starts to load.

The above URL stops loading

Expected Results:  Both windows should load to completion

Comment 1

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

Reporter () can you check to see whether this bug is still present in a recent
build (Moz1-RC1 or a new nightly build). If this bug does not occur please can
you resolve it worksforme. Thanks.

Comment 2

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

wfm, as nobody can reproduce it. reopen if you can.

Comment 3

[osavill]

Yes, I can.  Goto http://www.denzilgrant.com/cgi-bin/RenderPages/Render?Tables.csv?1 and click on one of the price links BEFORE the pictures have finished loading.  Result: The small popup window appears populated with the price ready for conversion, BUT the main page has stopped loading so not all the images are visible. 

Comment 4

[James Ross]

Reproducable on Windows 2000, using Mozilla 1.1b, build id 2002080308.

However, I don't think this is a bug, as such - the price links on the page have
URLs (all be it JavaScript ones) meaning the browser will stop loading the
current page when you click them. This is the indended behaviour (as far as I know).

Marking WONTFIX, since the reported problem is reproducable, but it's the
intended behaviour. If this isn't satisfactory (to the reporter), I suggest you
re-open this bug as "[RFE] Don't stop loading page when navigating to a
JavaScript URL" or similar (unless there is already a bug for that...).