267238 - Page shows content two times

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Chandler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Note that you may have to set up a login on the Motley Fool site, and log in, to
see this issue.  

When browsing on Motley Fool, many pages are shown "doubled".  Clicking on a
link on the "top" copy moves you to the "bottom" copy, and clicking on the link
there takes you to the actual referenced page. 

When browsing this same page using IE you only see the content once.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an account on Motley Fool 
2. Log in
3. Call up a quote for any stock symbol, for instance ORCL or MSFT.
4. Observe the page is shown twice.
5. In the top half, click on the link for "chart".
6. Observe it repositions the page at the second copy of the page.
7. Click the "chart" link there.
8. Chart appears.
9. Twice!
10. Repeat with IE.
11. Observe "normal" behavior (for a Microsoft product).

Actual Results:  
You will see the pages generated from Motley Fool are shown in the browser
window two times.

Expected Results:  
Show the content one time.

I have installed the Adblock extension, and have various filters set up,
including blocking from g.fool.com  They have a lot of annoying ads.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Reminds me of bug 256732.

Comment 2

[Michael Scullin]

I also see this behavior on some quotes.fool.com pages. It happens with both
Windows XP Home (at home) and with Win XP Pro at work. These are new versions of
FireFox within the past week. I do not have any extensions installed in the home
(XP Home) copy.

I also noticed on XP Home (but not XP Pro) that when I clicked on the Time Frame
combo box on the chart page
http://quotes.fool.com/custom/fool/html-chart.asp?currticker=fcnt.x&symbols=fcnt%2Ex
the pull-down list jumped upward to the top of the page, disconnected from the
box. I had to mouse up to it, as it jumped around, to select an item. I did not
try any other combo boxes.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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