257448 - Web form Login Button not clickable on any site I visit

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Bernard Danger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

When trying to log in to a web site requiring a password, I cannot complete 
the process as the "Login" button is not clickable.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any of the three URL's above.
2. Put in any user ID/password combo
3. Try hitting "Enter or alternately try cliicking the "Login" Button

Actual Results:  
Nothing.  No action happens at all.

Expected Results:  
Either taken me to the next page, or generated an error page if attempting to 
log in with an unknown user name/password.

  1) I notice that the login button DOES NOT GIVE ME A FINGER ICON indicating 
an active link when I mouse over it.

  2) I have asked multiple people to try to replicate this with WinXP and 
0.9.3 and none have the same problem.  However, **I am the only person that 
has Service Pack 2 installed on my laptop ** so this might be the variable in 
question that's breaking this.  I cannot uninstall SP 2 as this is a brand new 
work PC.

  3) Bug #252052 is SIMILAR (and I added notes to that bug report) but that 
user is using Mac not PC, so I thought I should make a new bug enrty.  Hope 
this isn't duplication of effort.

Comment 1

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040829
WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803
Firefox/0.9.3

I do have XP SP2

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040830

tested http://www.tradegamesnow.com with test/test, got an erormessage, so my
invalid login was processed as login.

removed other two URLS from the URL box.
The URL box is for writing ONE URL, and no text or comments, as the contents of
this box is loaded as URL when you click on URL:, and if there are comments, or
a  collection of URLs, you´ll get a 404.

the removed URLs:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided (BUGZILLA itself!)  
didn´t test that, it is wfm.

http://www.gamespress.com/login.asp?from=%2Flink%2Easp%3Fp%3D%2D1%26c%
can´t work, you put more into the box, than it´s length allowed.
%xx translates into a single char, so if your URL is ending with %, there are at
least two chars missing.

I assume you are using a User Agent switcher to get some sites working, they are
led to believe you are using IE, and let you in.
Tht can also work the other way round, you are assumed to be IE, you get vbs and
activeX, and the wrong java served.

On the other hand I don´t know why bugzilla wouldn´t let you in, even if you use
a user agent switcher.

Which browser did you use to make this bug entry?
Do you have extensions installed?
Can you create a new profile, just for testing, without any themes or extensions?
That doesn´t mean to delete the old one, just creating one more, and you´ll be
asked which one to use.
After testing is done, you can delete it, using the profile manager.

Comment 3

[Bernard Danger]

  Not sure what you mean by "User Agent Switcher".  I had to go to IE to log 
the bug, as I was unable to log into Bugzilla with Mozilla because of this 
issue (I could not send my user name and password, as the "submit" button is 
disabled by this bug).

  I'll be happy to make a new test profile with no themes or extensions- HOW 
DO I DO THAT?  Do I need to load a clean copy of the browser in a different 
location or something?  If I create a new ID within my current load of 
Mozilla, won't the extensions and themes still be loaded in the core app?  
Maybe I'm not understanding you...

  Extensions loaded: (all from Mozilla's site)

  DOM Inspector
  ie view
  OpenDownload
  Linkification
  SuperScroll

  Themes: 

  About a half-dozen, all the mor epopular ones (Noia, Appolo, etc.)  Let me 
know if you need a list.

  Thanks!
  

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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