195111 - katies-world.com - continuous page refresh - keeps scrolling up to the top of page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[D]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

I'm assuming that there's some JavaScript that ends up causing a page refresh
every second or so.

This produces slowness and more problematically keeps scrolling to the top of
the page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  go to http://www.katies-world.com/homenn.html
2.  scroll down
3.  wait for a few seconds

Actual Results:  
page is scrolled back to top

Expected Results:  
page stays scrolled down

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page reloads continuously in NS4 as well.  Looks like a bug in the page to
me....

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

function MM_checkBrowser(...
note newURL is never '' and location keeps getting reset

-> Tech Evangelism

Comment 3

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

please check if this problem still exists, because we want to get rid of
unconfirmed bugs.
Many bugs in here are strill unconfirmed, because eigher nobody sees the problem
or nobody is able to get to the page because of a required login.

(sorry for the spam)

Comment 4

[D]

Well the bug still exists - although apparently this is a site design problem...

Not sure how to proceed.

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 6

[Ben Fowler]

Since Katie is unlikely to persist in driving her potential citizens away,
this exact report is probably WONTFIX (not a problem within Mozilla).

However, I would argue that there is a possibility of improving Firefox here:
meta-refresh should be considered privileged, and should be off by default.

See Bug 83265 "UAAG: Add a way to disable HTTP-EQUIV=refresh (block automatic meta redirection, lock on current page)" The defect (if any) here may be fixed
on the trunk, if not, see http://www.vakuumverpackt.de/refreshblocker/

This bug can be closed as your choice from WONTFIX, DUP or INVALID (not 
confirmed)

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

the refresh seems to be gone