180107 - Sometimes I will try to navigate to a page via a hyperlink, mozilla appears to take me to the new page, but actually shows the last page content, refresh fixes it

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Peter Laurens]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

In extended browsing sessions - 1 hour+, many pages, lots of bookmarks used - I
will use a hyperlink on a page, and the Mozilla icon (top right) will whir for a
bit, and the progress bar (bottom right) will progress along to the end then go
blank (as normal), but the new page simply doesn't appear in the browser, and I
am left staring at the current page, unchanged. When this happens, I press
refresh, and the new page appears as it reloads. There doesn't seem to be
anything specific causing the problem (sorry), although generally when it begins
to happen, it will continue to happen with much greater frequency than in
shorter browsing sessions. At no time is it guaranteed to always happen.

This is not due to the specific website, it happens across websites and across
content.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Simply browse for a long time
2.Cross-fingers
3.

Actual Results:  
Sometimes it will do as explained in 'details'

Expected Results:  
Shown me the page I wanted to go to, instead of staying on the current one.

Am using the 'modern' theme

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using FizzillaCFM/2002110808 on 10.1.5. In fact, it just happened. I
was looking at bug 180118 (in a bug list), then went to the next (bug 180120)
and though load completed I was still looking at bug 180118.

Note also that I pressed pageUp and pageDown, and the result was a solid grey
content area.

Comment 2

[Café Internet @ CELAS]

Well, it's 10 months and many Mozilla revisions later. Perhaps this can be
re-tested?

Comment 3

[Jeff Leigh]

I'm seeing this problem with the latest builds (2004111307). Best way I've found
to reproduce it is to open a few links via tabs. Switching between the tabs
won't always refresh the correct content. But if you scroll up/down in the tab,
the correct content will eventually display.

Comment 4

[Jeff Leigh]

It also seems to have broken my 401k website. This is without tabs. Can't get
past the login screen. The next screen loads, but never displays in the window
and refresh doesn't fix it in this case. You can tell that something loaded
though, because mouseOvers still work.

Comment 5

[Jeff Leigh]

Patch in Bug 268090 has fixed both of my problems.

Comment 6

[Jamie Diamond]

Component from: "Mozilla Suit" >>> "Core".

Comment 7

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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