205653 - Charles Schwab Europe site closes browser or tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Calum Mackay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030514
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030514

http://www.schwab-europe.com/ redirects to http://www.schwab-worldwide.com/Europe/
, and following a link on this page crashes the browser.

Going direct to http://www.schwab-worldwide.com/Europe/
 and following the same link works fine (!).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.schwab-europe.com/. You will be auto-redirected to
http://www.schwab-worldwide.com/Europe/
2.under "existing customer" click on "US Dollar Account Login"
3.

Actual Results:  
mozilla crashes (or the tab crashes, if more than one tab is open)

Expected Results:  
load the page

The strange thing is that is you visit http://www.schwab-worldwide.com/Europe/
*directly*, the page loads fine.

Possibly some cookie is being set which breaks things.

Comment 1

[Calum Mackay]

Also seen on Linux/x86 20030509.

Comment 2

[Calum Mackay]

Perhaps "crash" is a bit strong: it actually takes out the current tab. If there
is only one tab in this window, it takes out the window. If there is only one
window, it takes out mozilla.

It does not crash the browser.

Comment 3

[Calum Mackay]

One might think, then, that it's just a web page problem, in that this link is
simply closing the window, especially at it's the same behaviour in Netscape 4.x

However, it doesn't do this in Opera, or so I'm told...

Comment 4

[Olivier Cahagne]

Deactivate pop-up blocking.

the initial page uses JavaScript code:

function LoadSite()
{
	open("http://www.schwab-worldwide.com/Worldwide/Europe/Index.html","_top")
}

function Wait10()
{
	var theTimer = setTimeout("LoadSite()",1)
}

Propose to mark INVALID.

Comment 5

[Calum Mackay]

Deactivating pop-blocking makes no difference, at least in our testing here
(we'd already tried it).

also doesn't explain why it works fine if you go direct to the page and follow
the link, instead of being redirected and then following the link.

also confirmed page loads fine in Opera 6.12 Beta 1.

Comment 6

[Olivier Cahagne]

sorry for comment 4, you're right, I can reproduce this with build 2003051305 on
Win2k.

the link you mention https://usdtrade.schwab.com/europe/trading/start

shows JS code:

if (window != top) 
  {
    top.location.href =
'https://usdtrade.schwab.com/europe/trading/start?&AddrChangeAuth=ENABLED';
    self.close();
  }

And the initial URL http://www.schwab-europe.com loads
http://www.schwab-worldwide.com/Europe/ in "_top" (see comment 4).

When loaded directly from http://www.schwab-worldwide.com/Europe/ the JS will
behave different because it's a simple frame, not "_top".

Then, this may expose a Mozilla bug, I'm not sure how top, _top are defined
(especially with tabs).

Comment 7

[Calum Mackay]

Yup, possibly just needs to go to Evangelism, but poss not even then, since it
only fails on a redirect from an old page.

Comment 8

[Hermann Schwab]

I´m seeing this with Firebird and Mozilla.
Following the first link, the website closes after I deny a cookie. Didn´t look
what is happening when I accept. Following the second link, it doesn´t close.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030514

Additionally, when I first looked with Firebird, I was asked to upgrade my
browser, because of a invalid certificate. After I looked at the site with
mozilla, I didn´t see this with Firebird. 

Comment 9

[Torben]

FWIW, I cannot replicate this bug with Moz 1.3 (Mac OS 9.1).

Comment 10

[Hermann Schwab]

I just replicated the bug with Mozilla 1.3 and Mozilla 1.3.1 under Win98 SP1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Comment 11

[Mitch]

The webpage mentioned no longer exists for Charles Schwab. Reporter please close
this bug.

Comment 12

[Calum Mackay]

Yup, the problem is gone, now, for whatever reason.