19510 - Clicking on targeted links doesn't work.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 17468

(Core :: XUL, defect, P2)

Description

[Mathieu Fenniak]

Using the latest daily build, and every daily build over the past week or so at
least, clicking on some of the links on the given url
(http://www.digitalroutes.co.uk/office/clients.html) doesn't work properly. In
mozilla proper, clicking seems to do nothing at all, except that when shutting
down the browser the desired window is seen for a split second. Using the
gtk_browser, the window opens properly and loads the correct client web site.

Comment 1

[Mike McCabe]

Hm.  Nothing here to suggest it's the JavaScript engine.  Other than that, I'm
stumped.  Firing it to Browser-General, in case that'll put it on Bugathon
radar.

Comment 2

[Mathieu Fenniak]

I assumed javascript problem because of the link opening new window thing. My
mistake, then, sorry. :)

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The links in this page are of the form <a href="..." target="new">...</a>.

Comment 4

[leger]

Moving to proper component.

Comment 5

[Mike McCabe]

Jan -

The JavaScript engine is not the proper component.  This seems to be a problem
in the UI, or in some other aspect of the browser.

The JavaScript engine component isn't links, or behaviors of the DOM (such as
document.write) that happen to be exposed to JavaScripts, or HTML parsing or
networking.  Please take care when assigning bugs to the JavaScript component,
because 90% of the bugs assigned to this component aren't problems with
JavaScript.

Comment 6

[Robert Ginda]

cc'ing Chris because he mentioned 'issues' with targeted links not too long
ago.  Chris, is the the same trouble you saw, maybe even a dup?

Comment 7

[leger]

Per don's comments in a mail:
"could be some frame targeting problem since you can't
even openthe "clients.html" frame in its own window.  Since these
links aresupposed to bring up new windows, I think this might be a
job for Dan Matejka on the XPToolkit team.'

Will try XP Toolkit, trudelle - what do  you think?

Comment 8

[Peter Trudelle]

sounds like a regression.  assigning to danm as p2 for m13

Comment 9

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Is this the same as bug 17468 (which has a fix attached to it)?

Comment 10

[jst]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17468 ***

Comment 11

[chrisn]

This bug is verified to be a dupe of bug 17648. [e-mail] verified that the
fix
to bug 17648 also fixed this bug.