174322 - link opened in a new tab causes primary window to jump to top of page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Christian Flatscher]

Hi,

I am currently using Mozilla 1.1 and I have a problem with viewing some
webpages that are specifically designed for the M$ IE browser family.

Here are two examples:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q185883
^Microsoft Knowledgebase Articles are not very readable (fine with Opera 6.0)

http://derstandard.at
Works fine - except when a link is opened in a new tab then the primary window
jumps to the top of the page. So you need to scroll down again.

Thanks for your kind help!

--Christian

Comment 1

[Michael Lefevre]

firstly, for future reference, please cover only one issue per report - tracking
of different issues within a report is not possible with bugzilla.

your first example is a web page issue, covered by bug 159494, so we can leave
that aside here.

the issue with derstandard.at I can't reproduce. first window stays where it
should for me, using mozilla 1.2alpha on win2k.  could you try it with a more
recent build (either a recent nightly build, or 1.2beta is just around the
corner), and see if it still happens for you? thanks

Comment 2

[Christian Flatscher]

Michael,

I have just downloaded the latest version of Mozilla (v1.2b) from
http://www.mozilla.org. As suggested I downloaded the latest nightly build.

Unfortunately the problem stays the same. If I connect with my Windows 2000
system to http://derstandard.at and scroll down the page and then select any
link from there and open this link in a new tab, then the original page
http://derstandard.at jumps to the very top again. This does not occur
when I open up the page in a new navigator window.

Are you able to see my problem as well?

Thanks!

--Christian

P.S.: Sorry for posting two problems into one bug report. I will refrain from
this in the future.

Comment 3

[Torben]

I am able to reproduce the reported behaviour with build 2002100920, but only if
the windows contains only one tab.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open http://derstandard.at in a new window
2. Scroll down, right-click on any link and select "open in new tab"
=> first page scrolls to top.
3. Scroll down again, right-click etc => no scrolling
4. Close other tab, repeat => as 2

Comment 4

[Christian Flatscher]

Hi,

following Torben's comments I replicated his findings as well.

What I noticed is that when you have opened up two tabs on the
http://derstandard.at web page and you close them all, then Mozilla
will jump back to the top of the page at http://derstandard.at.

The situation is as follows:
If you then close all tabs - the order does not play any role - you
will notice that after closing the last tab Mozilla jumps to the
top of the first page.

Was anybody else able to see this behaviour?

Thx!

Christian

Comment 5

[Torben]

Conforming, changing component and updating OS (I belive win95 means 95 and
forward).

Comment 6

[Torben]

I cannot reproduce this anymore, but I am using Mac OS X now. 
Christian, do you still experience this?

Comment 7

[Christian Flatscher]

Hi Torben,

I am now using Mozilla v1.3.1 for Windows.

Due to my workload I haven't been on the web page for months now.

I just tested it and it works fine.

Sorry for the delay in my response and thank you very much for fixing this
issue.

--Christian