29668 - clicking on XPInstall link on mozilla.org + 2 other steps causes bad reflow

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Description

[Jacob Kjome]

I am testing on build 2000022908

1. Go to http://www.mozilla.org

2. Now, click on the XPInstall link.  The link goes to:
news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.xpinstall

The link will go nowhere, so you will still be at mozilla.org

3. now click on any whitespace on the page

4. now mouse over the XPInstall link and watch the page do a very goofy reflow


This is similar to a problem I had reported a long while back dealing with 
mousing over images:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14809


Jake

Comment 1

[troy]

Changing component to tables. My guess is that an incremental reflow occurs and 
the table reflows differently

Comment 2

[troy]

*** Bug 30126 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jacob Kjome]

In regard to bug 30126, there are other links on the mozilla home page that 
seem to be causing the same sort of reflows when you right click them.  In 
fact, right-clicking on just about ANY link on the page except for the left 
hand column of links and the "more" link for the status update causes strange 
reflows.

Jake

Comment 4

[Jacob Kjome]

bug 28553 seems to be related to this.  A fix has been checked in for that, 
supposedly, so let's see how that one turns out.

jake

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I can reproduce this in M14, but it now works (20000324, W95). Given 
[e-mail]'s comments, marking as such. 

Gerv

Comment 6

[Christine Hoffman]

Adding 'verifyme' keyword

Comment 7

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

QA contact update