277124 - motorola.com - history.go(0) nukes selection

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 153734

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[phil]

Sets to reproduce the issue
I tested in IE 6.0.2800.1106 in Win 2000 and it works
but not Firefox 1.0 on Win2000 SP4

1- Go to http://commerce.motorola.com/consumer/QWhtml/manual.html
2- Under Download a FREE user manual 1st drop-down menu "-Select-Category-"
   select "Phones"
3- the 2nd drop-down menu should update from "- Select Product -" to "-  Select
Phones -" and if you click on this it will list all the phones possible (works
for IE 6)
4- But for firefox it will display briefly "-  Select Phones -" (half second)  
   then go back to "- Select Product -". No phone list. No phone is
selectable... and of course the 3rd drop-down menu does not get update so can
not download manual.
   
Win 2000 5.00.2195 SP 4
Firefox 1.0 with Adblock .5  forecast .5.8 flashgot .5.5
bandwith tester .4.1   tabbrowser preferences 1.1.1

Reproduced the issue on 2 PCs running win2000 SP4

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The two "if(navigator.appName=="Netscape"){history.go(0);}" in
http://commerce.motorola.com/consumer/QWhtml/manual.js might have done some sort
of good when it was detecting NN 4.x, but now all it does is reloads us,
resetting the selection.

Comment 2

[phil]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153734 ***