292884 - Reloading a frame causes links in other frames to become 'unclickable'

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050502
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050502

If I got to my website and load up a page I can use all the links in the various
frames. If I then reload a single frame all links in the other frames stop
responding to the mouse clicks.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto http://www.ditl.org
2. Click on the Series Guides button at the bottom of the screen
3. Click on Episodes near the top of the new menu that appears on the left
   of the window.
4. Click on 'A Piece of the Action' in the list that appears on the right
5. Click the next button a few times to show that it works.
6. Now control-click in the grey/dark-grey table (ie in the lower frame)
   and select 'This frame', 'Reload Frame' from the popup menu.
7. Now try clicking the next button.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens when you click the button.

Expected Results:  
The HTML in this frame remains the same so it should go to the next episode. It
it doesn't go wrong the first time just keep hitting the next button a few times
and then reload the lower frame, it seems to happen very frequently for me.

This seems to have started happening in the 1.8.x versions. It's fine in the
1.7.x release series. I've also seen it happen with other websites, but only
those with frames.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I can't seem to reproduce this with a 2005-06-07-06 build on Windows...

Comment 2

[Not interested in Mozilla any more]

Still there on 2005-06-07-09 build on MacOS 10.3.9

Comment 3

[Not interested in Mozilla any more]

This appears to be something to do with the context menu that pops up when you
hold the mouse down, or when you hold control and click rather than using the
keyboard or back button to navigate. I've not tested it on windows so I can't
comment on that. I'll try at work tomorrow if I get the time.

Comment 4

[TT]

I wonder if there's any connection between this bug and bug #323008.

Comment 5

[Not interested in Mozilla any more]

I wouldn't have thought so. It's not an all or nothing thing. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I don't need to create a new profile to fix the process. It just seems to forget the other frames exist when just one frame is reloaded...

Comment 6

[TT]

Creating a new profile only works sometimes.  In fact, I've given up using that trick to "fix" the problem.  The only reason I pointed out that other bug is that both bugs

1) Are Mac-specific
2) Are sporadic
3) Has to do with links not working
4) Context menu is involved

In bug #323008, right clicking on the link and selecting "open link in new tab" always works.  One theory I have for bug #323008 is that the auto-scroll feature is screwing it up.  When I middle-click on a web page, an icon appears and I can scroll up/down just by moving the mouse.  I can't figure out how to turn that feature off.

Comment 7

[Frankie]

Listed site no longer uses frames.

http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/ WFM in recent FF Mac.