268788 - web page works fine under version 0.9.3 - broken ever since

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263057

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Jeff Manson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

entering search data in library catalog search form should bring up range of
library items matching search data on results page. This works first time only,
if new search is tried with same data, result returns with "You have not entered
any search terms" message. Also entering user ID and PIN in login field,
generates a result page the same as if no user ID was entered. Neither of these
was a problem with versions 0.9 to 0.9.3 of firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter search data into search form (eg abcdef) and press search button
2. result page returns with matching results and offers to search again
3. Select 'New Search' menu item (NOT 'change your search words' button
4. Enter 'abcdef' into new search form (using either auto-finish or not)
5. result page returns with 'You have not entered any search terms' message

Second problem is only exactly reproducible if you have a user ID to log in
with. The steps are :
1. Enter user ID and PIN number - to reproduce similar result, leave these blank
2. Press 'Login to My eLibCat' button
3. result page returns with 'Missing user or alternative ID' message and user ID
form data filled in with 'WEBSERVER'. This is same message as if the login
button had been pressed without entering any User ID data (ie. matches error
message returned).

Actual Results:  
See steps 2, 5 for problem 1 and step 3 for problem 2 in 'steps to reproduce'

Expected Results:  
Step 5 for problem 1 should provide matching catalog entries.
Step 3 for problem 2 should provide login screen to view borrowing status etc.

Versions 0.9 to 0.9.3 of Firefox work fine, versions 1.0PR and above do not.
This site appears to embed Javascript in the body of the html which performs
focus and select functions eg:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
     document.searchform.searchdata1.focus();
        document.searchform.searchdata1.select();
    </script>
This may be related to similar Javascript focus bug #236791. Needless to say,
there is no problem using IE, but my wife does not want to use it any more, she
just wants Firefox to work like it used too, on one of her most frequently used
sites!

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

workaround: enter about:config in the addressbar, then browser.chrome.favicons
in the Filter input, double-click the preference to set it to false, and it
should work (searching does, anyway). If that doesn't fix the login problem,
too, please reopen this bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263057 ***

Comment 2

[Jeff Manson]

(In reply to comment #1)
> workaround: enter about:config in the addressbar, then browser.chrome.favicons
> in the Filter input, double-click the preference to set it to false, and it
> should work (searching does, anyway). If that doesn't fix the login problem,
> too, please reopen this bug.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263057 ***

This workaround also fixes the login problem. Many thanks, my wife is happy once
more...

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 270129 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***