251804 - Clicking a link from a frame doesn't open the corresponding page on the other frame

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249603

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Leandro Calçada]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

Clicking a link from a frame doesn't open the corresponding page on the other
frame. Setting docshell.frameloadcheck.disabled to true in about:config
circumvented the problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open website
2. Click a link from the LEFT frame


Actual Results:  
Notthing happens

Expected Results:  
Page should change on the right frame

Setting docshell.frameloadcheck.disabled to true in about:config circumvented
the problem.

Comment 1

[Raimund Bauer]

I've had the same problem with browsing threads on groups.google.com. As far as
I can see, I have the same problem with all sites, where the target-attribute of
the link is not quoted (i.e. myphpadmin cross-frame links work)

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This occurs in the URL provided because the two frames are not on the same site.

bp.tc.uol.com.br

vs

batepapo.uol.com.br

This is a security measure to prevent cross site scripting. I think. I can't
explain the behaviour in comment 1.

Comment 3

[Gareth Jones]

I get the same problem intermittently with Bloglines. The right-hand frame
contains a list of postings from an RSS feed. The problem manifests itself
intermittently and as yet I have been unable to ascertain the exact circumstance
which triggers this behaviour.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Makes you wonder why the release notes for 0.9 asked that bugs like this be filed about sites where docshell.frameloadcheck.disabled is needed, if nobody planned on doing anything about them...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249603 ***