212359 - JavaScript menus don't work for some users

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102578

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[C.M. Connelly]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Mozilla is installed in an NFS-shared directory, where it is run from various
workstations.

For some users, the JavaScript menus on these pages don't work.  They render
fine, but when a user clicks on one to go to the page, nothing happens.  (Unless
there happens to be a link under the menu on the main page, in which case that
link is loaded.)

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
For users suffering from the problem,

1. Go to website
2. Try to click on link


Actual Results:  
Either nothing or Mozilla loaded the target of the link under the mouse pointer
on the page (but not the menu link).

Expected Results:  
Loaded the page referred to by the menu.

I haven't been able to isolate this problem.  It occurs for some users,
including me, on machines other than my own.  However, it also occurs for other
users on my machine.

I have seen this problem with Mozilla 1.2.1, Mozilla 1.4, and the nightly build
for 2003-07-09.  It also appears in Netscape 7.0 for affected users.

Renaming and recreating the ~/.mozilla directory doesn't seem to have any
effect; nor does copying a working ~/.mozilla directory.

I'm also seeing the problem on machines running Red Hat Linux 7.3 (most) and Red
Hat Linux 9 (experimental machine).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Not a problem in the engine, almost certainly... What windowmanager are these
users using?  

Comment 2

[C.M. Connelly]

Ooh, yeah, that might be it.  I'm using a different window manager on the
machine where I don't see the issue.  Cool.  I was leaning toward shell
environment, but I hadn't thought of the window manager.  I'll check tomorrow
morning.

The window manager running on the accounts that show the problem is Sawfish
1.0.1-9 (from Red Hat Linux 7.3) or Metacity 2.4.34-3 (on the RHL 9 machine).  I
run WindowMaker 0.80.0-9.3 on my 7.3 machine.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See bug 102578 -- you may be seeing that....

Comment 4

[C.M. Connelly]

Yes, this bug definitely looks like 102578.  I've tested it on my work machine
(RH 7.3) and my home machine (Debian testing), and the bug appears with Sawfish
or Metacity, but not with WindowMaker.

I'm glad to see there's a workaround.  Thanks, Boris.


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