191652 - After entering into YahooMail, page reloads continuously and automatically without letting me interact

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 143810

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Galileo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

After logging in to my Yahoo email account, the proceeding page (and any page
within the YahooMail system) keeps continuously reloading. It seems that as soon
as one of the ads has loaded, it then goes on right away to load the next ad.
The problem is the browser will reload not just the ad but the whole page. The
only way to stop this is by hitting the "stop" button on the browser. Then, I
can access the various links within the Yahoomail system. But as soon as you
enter another page within the system, the ad/page-reloading starts all over
again. This does not happen at log-in or log-out, only after logging in to the
system. This started happening to me within the last day (Feb 2 2003).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to Yahoo.com
2.Click the Email link 
3.Log in


Actual Results:  
As soon as the next page loads (the main mail page) the problem occurs.

Expected Results:  
Just reloaded the ad and not the whole page itself.

Comment 1

[Patrick Xia]

Meh? The ads don't seem to refresh at all. I don't see a refresh tag on the
page, besides

<noscript>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV yadda yadda for the no-js users>
</noscript>

which doesn't refresh the page continously.

WFM 2003012110 linux

Comment 2

[Ilya N.]

IT doesn't happen to me 

I use the exact same browser and OS as you

Comment 3

[Ilya N.]

are you part of SBC YAhoo! DSL? I am, maybe that's why it won't happen to me

Comment 4

[Patrick Xia]

Ilya: The ISP shouldn't make a difference.

-> RESOLVED WORKSFORME [two reports of WFM, one on native OS]
Reporter: Try a newer build of mozilla, or a fresh profile. If the problem still
persists, feel free to REOPEN this bug.

Comment 5

[Ilya N.]

I'm not saying ISP:
I'm saying that sometimes SBC Y! subscribers have a different interface


BTW:
SHE/HE HAS 1.3a, HOW MUCH NEWER CAN YOU GO??

I have 2002121215, instead of 20021212, is that newer then???

Comment 6

[Patrick Xia]

daily builds. also, the second option was TRY IT WITH A CLEAN PROFILE (should've
been the first, I admit), so that should also help.

Comment 7

[Ilya N.]

I agree with the resolution

Comment 8

[Patrick Xia]

*** Bug 194274 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Patrick Xia]

Duplicate of this bug shows that it isn't confined to just one person. Reopening
this bug.

Comment 10

[Patrick Xia]

I still can't seem to reproduce this. 

Reporter: Can you still reproduce this with a recent build (1.3b)?

Comment 11

[Josh Birnbaum]

Does the URL change when the page gets reloaded?

In Preferences, Advanced, Scripts & Plugins: are scripts allowed to read/set
cookies?

Possibly a dupe of bug 143810

Comment 12

[Chris Lyon]

dupe of bug 143810 via bug 177426

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143810 ***