267857 - View thread mode in Google groups results in intermittently hosed web page

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jonah Bishop]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

The provided URL (which is quite long), fails to render correctly inside both
Mozilla (1.7.3) and Firefox (1.0 RC2). The page looks fine in Internet Explorer 6.0.

The URL points to the threaded view of a newsgroup posting (found by doing a
groups search at Google). What's expected is a left frame containing the
threaded view of post headings, and a right frame, showing the contents of up to
10 of the posts. What Firefox / Mozilla actually render are two empty frames,
each of which takes up 50% of the page (width-wise).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the provided URL
(http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&c2coff=1&threadm=FcS3a.2133%24bK4.339596%40ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca&rnum=30&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26c2coff%3D1%26q%3Dhostforweb%26btnG%3DSearch).
2. Note the problem.

Comment 1

[Jonah Bishop]

As Asa mentioned (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/006789.html),
rendering needed further testing. Not sure if this falls under that category,
but that's why I placed the ? on the blocking flag. Besides, I'm not familiar
with this flag business anyways (so apologies for any mistake I've made).

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I'm unable to reproduce with today's branch build on windows XP. If you can get
this narrowed down to a simplified testcase and you can find out when it
regressed, please re-nominate.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.