193833 - no link in drop down menu on linux intel system

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102578

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jean Marie THIA]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

We use drop/popup menu on our web site. When the mouse is over a menu item a
popup appears showing a submenu which items are simple link <a href...> html.
Pointing to sub menu item, the link appears in the status bar of the browser but
the click on the link does NOT trigger any action(the new page is not downloaded.
The case is that it only happens on Tux box. The menu work fine with mozilla on
windows, Mac OS 10.2.3, Aix using X windows. Not on linux, with an exception on
my   test box (debian/kde and build above) it works when i am root.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to www.upmc.fr
2.select a menu in the green or bleu horizontal bar (try Formation)
3.select a sub menu item and click

Actual Results:  
the targeted page is not download.

Expected Results:  
switch to the targeted page.

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

WFM Linux 20030217
You should try a newer version like 1.3b

Comment 2

[Jean Marie THIA]

I did so! Installed in a new directory and same result. Even worse i was root 
user for the install process!

Comment 3

[beanladen]

WFM 1.3beta Linux i386. Do you have an old user profile ?
If so, try with a new one. When that works, this is a
'migration bug' (Mozilla older-> Mozilla newer).

Comment 4

[Kenneth Herron]

I can reproduce this with build id 20030218 for solaris 8/sparc.

This is almost certainly bug 102578. Each of the menu objects has an onmouseout
handler which hides the menu object. The handler is being (incorrectly) fired by
the mouse click. Mozilla doesn't follow the link because links are followed on
button release and the link is gone by then.

Bug 102578 is sensitive to the window manager in use. I presume you use a
different, probably simpler, window manager as root than you do as a normal user.

Comment 5

[Jean Marie THIA]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102578 ***