40395 - Mouse over link duplicates part of page (involves font, br, hr, a href)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32518

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Jeffrey Baker]

This is a weird bug, and obviously a blocker since it involves The Onion ;)  I
found this problem with i686-pc-linux-gnu Build 2000052313.  The problem is that
mousing over some links makes part of the page duplicate itself.  To reproduce:

1) Start Moz navigate to http://www.theonion.com/onion3619/
2) If needed, scroll the window so that the links under "In The News" are
visible.
3) Mouse over and off of each of the links several times.
4) Now scroll down and notice that the column's contents are duplicated at least
once.

This problem is pretty odd.  I suspected a rogue document.write() or other
scripting bug, but this page has no significant scripting to speak of.

Comment 1

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

also experiancing this, tested on lastnights linux build.

very strange effect, theres not even much javascript on this page, and none on
those links. view source shows only one copy of the repeated text.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: somewhat simpler version of page

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Windows 98 as well.  (Setting all/all)

Comment 4

[Jeffrey Baker]

Attachment: Testcase reduced almost as far as possible

Comment 5

[Jeffrey Baker]

I reduced the testcase to remove some noise.  You can also blank out the href
attribute from the A element, but I didn't want anyone to get the impression
that the empty A element was causing adverse interactions.

Comment 6

[Jeffrey Baker]

adding testcase keyword.  Note that [e-mail] is actually to thank for
cutting through all that markup.

Comment 7

[Jeffrey Baker]

I think this is a dupe of 32518.  The testcase here is more minimal though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32518 ***

Comment 8

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

*** Bug 40418 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Blake Ross]

Sounds like it to me (vrfy)