296604 - Links and buttons lose effect (random)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Peter L Jones]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050603 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050603 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060313

With a number of different tinderbox builds - including Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050602 Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060211 - I
occasionally find that some links on some sites stop working. Refreshing the
page sometimes fixes it.

Unfortunately, as it's intermittent, it's very hard to deduce what's causing it,
so we've not yet identified an example.

Additional details and user comment here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1513951#1513951
Follow ups by Ria and Peter(6) indicate "it's not just me" :)

Warning: this is _very_ intermittent.  It's not happened (yet?) in the build I'm
currently using (see Build Identifier field), so /may/ have already been resolved.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
In my experience (and Ria's by the sound of it), the problem occurs on pages
with FORMs, although it's not clear whether that's relevant.  The problem can
happen with either a form submit button (e.g. the quick reply button Ria
mentions) or a normal <A HREF> link (e.g. the Empty Trash link at mail.com that
I mention).

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050604
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060401

one of the many focus/select problems
I frequently see <a> links not respond onclick

dupe of ?

Comment 2

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Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

haven't seen this in quite a while