313099 - html links on hindustantimes.com do not work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ambuj]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

If I load www.hindustantimes.com, none of the links on the page work. clicking
them dont get anything. However while the page is loading, just before it
completes the load, you abort it by pressing ESC, the links work.
(of course everything works w/ stupid IE!)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. view http://www.hindustantimes.com/
2. let it complete the loading
3. try opening any link on the page

Actual Results:  
the link wont come

Expected Results:  
should have opened the link's target

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

There's a transparent Flash applet covering most of the page.

Comment 2

[ambuj]

so, how does one "fix" this? should FF provide some knob to deal with these
stupid pages?

Comment 3

[u63580]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051017
Firefox/1.4.1

Seems to be WFM - there is an ad, but it can be closed and I can then use the links.

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051020
Firefox/1.5 ID:2005102000

WFM - if all links show what they promise in the statusbar. The ones I tried worked.

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

works for me in winxp and firefox 1.0.7 and 1.5 from today.