147351 - thestreet.com - Bad autoload when opening new web page

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Chris Bitmead]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051006

This one's been bugging me a long time. When you visit
thestreet.com and I middle click to open a news story
in a new window, the original main thestreet.com page
also reloads. So if I'm trying to middle click a couple
of stories at once it usually all goes awry because after
the first middle click the original page reloads as well.
I know thestreet.com does an auto-reload every 5 minutes
or so, so I don't know if the bug is somehow related to
this but I know it definitely doesn't wait the allotted
time. I am using the option "middle click opens tabbed
browser links in background". Not sure if that is also
a factor.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set options "middle click opens tabbed window" and "opens link in background".
2.visit www.thestreet.com
3. middle mouse click one of the stories

Actual Results:  The original web page reloads for some strange reason.

Expected Results:  Only the news story should be loading in the background.
The main page should stay put.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page installs an onresize handler that reloads the page.  Opening a new tab 
causes the page to resize.

Does the tabbar appear when you open this new tab?   Or is it already present?

Comment 2

[Chris Bitmead]

The tabber appears when I open the new tab, so that explains it, though I'm not
sure if it excuses it. I'm not familiar with the purpose of "onresize handlers",
but is it appropriate to disable it for this situation? This is just the sort of
web site that is great for tabbed browsing (i.e. main web page leads to multiple
stories), but the reload thing wrecks the experience.

I am aware that there is some option for making the tabs appear permanently, but
I wouldn't like to resort to that.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Well.. it _could_ be disabled.  But that would break pages that do useful 
things like move stuff around onresize (after all, the size of the content area 
_did_ change).

This is evangelism -- this page reloads on resize because it thinks we are NS4.

Comment 4

[Chris Bitmead]

Well, I'd like an option to turn it off, just like I'd like an option to turn
off auto-reload. These both drive me crazy. When I want it to reload, I'll press
reload thanks very much.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You want bug 64737 -- security policies for event handlers.  That would let you 
just disable all onresize event handlers.

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

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