264054 - browser ofter gets "lost" or "fixated" after visiting web pages

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[d. powers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

Upon visiting a number of sites and usually when linking to another site on that
page, if the target cannot be found some form of 404 message will be shown but
that URL seems to take over the browser. The only "fix" is to terminate the
browser and then restart it. IE sometimes gets "lost" but by clearing cookies
and cache, the problen sometimes clears itself.

I don't want to use IE at all but Moz 1.7.3 seems to get "hung up" and unable to
     move to another URL several times a day. It is frustrating when you follow
a tree of links only to be stuck in an endless loop where the browser is locked
onto one URL and can't go anywhere else.

Naturally my suspicion is that some web pages are using non-standard Microsoft
html extensions that Mozilla doesn't handle.

Thanks
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Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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