282240 - Link bombs in Mozilla but not IE.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[cettel]

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

Go to www.legitgov.org and search for the story headlined "Chávez arming to
fight attack by U.S." and when you click on it, nothing happens in Mozilla even
though there's no such problem in IE.

This occurs with some of the stories on that website, but not with all of them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://legitgov.org.
2. Search for the story headlined "Chávez arming to fight attack by U.S."
3. Click on it. Nothing happens in Mozilla even though there's no such problem
in IE.

This occurs with some of the stories on that website, but not with all of them.

Actual Results:  
As described above.

Expected Results:  
Behaved like IE.

Comment 1

[Patrick]

worksforme, spawns a new window though. Do you have any software blocking such
pop-up windows? What are your Firefox settings for blocks?

Comment 2

[Patrick]

[e-mail] can you please provide more info. If not we'll have to close
this bug.

Comment 3

[Patrick]

please use bugzilla for ALL bug related correspondence.
got pm from reporter: link no longer exists -> wfm