272368 - Some links fail on first click, repositionng display instead

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 261153

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Alex Purins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122

Most (perhaps all) text links on that page color-highlight on mouseover, but
nothing happens on first click except a repositioned paint (see below) with a
dotted border around the link.  A second click correctly follows the link. 
Example links are "Download the source and binaries" and "Case Studies".

Image links on that page behave the same if clicked in about the top 20 pixels,
but if clicked center or low they correctly follow the link (though they still
trigger a repositioned paint). Examples are the "NoSoftwarePatents.com" block
and the "eVite" block.

On first display, the body (MySQL 4.1 blue block, and the text "The MySQL
database server is the world's most popular") is close (about 10 pixels) to the
menu bar above it ("Products" "Support" etc).  On clicking a link, the body
repaints further down (about 30 pixels from the bar), regardless of whether the
link is followed.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the webpage
2. Click on the links described
3. 

Actual Results:  
First click on text links, or top part (about 20 pixels) of image links, simply
repaints as described

Expected Results:  
Followed the link to a new page

Believe I have seen this on other pages, though most web pages work fine. 

All the links on the MySQL page work correctly in Firefox 1.0, with the body
staying about 10 pixels below the bar.

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Probably a dupe of bug 261153. Can you test this with a newer nightly build,
please? Thanks! :-)

Comment 2

[Alex Purins]

Yes, http://www.mysql.com/ links are correctly handled in build
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041129

Comment 3

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Marking as a dupe of bug 261153.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261153 ***