197647 - links not working properly if page is still loading (pipelining?)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[proctor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Links (both text or image) does not work properly if web page (esp. most images
not loaded yet) is still loading.
This happens usually when a page contains lots of image, or takes long to download.
The google URL given above is only an example page because it contains lots of
images (links).
This happens to other site, other pages too.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
a.
While a page is still loading, click on a text link, and a "Save/download" box
appear. Browser did not open the linked page.

b.
While a page is still loading, click on an image link, the browser will load the
image instead of the linked page. just like "view image".


Expected Results:  
Take user to the linked page.

Comment 1

[proctor]

The better place to test this is in google image search. http://images.google.com .

Search anything.

While pictures are loading, at the bottom, click on the
"reault page: Previous < 1 2 3 > Next"

Click on any page. sometimes it will show the loading image, sometimes it will
open the "save/download" dialogue box, sometimes it will take you to the linked
page (the right thing) .

Comment 2

[Barry K. Nathan]

I just ran into this on Linux (with Froogle and Mozilla 1.3 final), so it
doesn't just affect WinXP.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

I've seen this on Google pages and assumed it was because I had enabled
pipelining.  Proctor and Barry, do you have pipelining enabled?  (about:config,
look at network.http.pipelining.)

Comment 4

[Barry K. Nathan]

I don't anymore, for other reasons, but I might have had it enabled when I first
experienced this bug. I haven't had the bug again with Mozilla 1.4a, but I guess
I need to try 1.3 again to see whether pipelining makes a difference. (I might
not get a chance to do that for several days, though.)

Comment 5

[proctor]

I am using Mozilla 1.4a too now. And i don't have that problem with 1.4a.

I re-installed 1.3 build 2003032708 (after uninstalled 1.4a) , and the problem
don't seems to appear anymore neither with or without pipelining enabled.

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->default contacts

Comment 7

[Barry K. Nathan]

I have not seen this bug in many months so I'm going to remove my vote...

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

From Barry's comment and the fact I can't reproduce this either in Mozilla
1.7/winxp this looks like it is a works for me. Proctor, please reopen if you
can reproduce in a new build.