331135 - Links become inactive in Mediawiki site navigation box

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Roy Kimbrell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

As illustrated by the URL above, the links in the Mediawiki site navigation box become "inactive."  That is, they do not appear as links.  When cliking on them or mousing over them they appear as text except you cannot select the text to copy it.  The top three links (Main Page, News Updates, and Recent Changes) are affected.  In addition the box title "site navigation" cannot be selected to be copied (the other titles can be).  

The occurs in Linux and Windows XP versions of Firefox 1.5.  It does not occur in IE 6.0.  This occurs in all instances of MediaWiki we've installed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install MediaWiki
2.Attempt to access site navigation links
3.After awhile (not right away sometimes), the links become inactive.

Actual Results:  
The links become inactive

Expected Results:  
The links should take you to various pages  (if you are logged in) otherwise, they'll just appear as links.

Comment 1

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060319 Firefox/1.6a1
Works fine for me. Can you replicate this on any other Mediawiki installations (e.g. http://wikipedia.org/)?

Comment 2

[Roy Kimbrell]

No, it seems to work in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.  I installed MediaWiki on Fedora Core 3 and on two SuSE 10's.  In each case, out-of-the-box, the links didn't work as I expected.  

Oops - wrong site in the URL above.  Try http://tech.ngtechnotes.net.  Odd, also, that the ioos.ngtechnotes.net site works.  

Roy

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

I'm not sure, but DOMI displays the p-logo <div> is "above" the link list on the left and so you cannot click on most of these links. The CSS uses a lot of overflow, width, height and whatever properties, i guess the error might be somewhere there.

Comment 4

[Roy Kimbrell]

Shoot.  Sorry.  Fixed a <div> now it works.  Odd that it worked in IE.