388140 - Page is not positioned to an empty named anchor

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 388019

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007071301 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007071301 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre - Build ID: 2007071301

If the URL points to an empty, but valid, named anchor (like the URL mentioned at top), the page is positioned at top-of-page instead of on the anchor in question.

This happens in today's trunk versions of both Firefox (Minefield) and SeaMonkey; it didn't happen yesterday.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/chroniq/noms/noms_m.htm#Meaux (or any other URL pointing to an empty named anchor)
Actual Results:  
Page is positioned at top-of-page.

Expected Results:  
Page should be positioned at the entry "Meaux" which is at its alphabetical location down the page.

Comment 1

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Bug disappeared spontaneously in the next nightly: WORKSFORME for now.

Needless to say, I'll go on checking for this condition.