424666 - Loading gmail links in same tab fails.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

Description

[Chris Recouvreur]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080211 Camino/1.5.5 (jedik)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080211 Camino/1.5.5 (jedik)

Inside of gmail any links I open with Camino hang and time out when opened in the same tab. I have no problem opening the link in a new tab however. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log on to gmail
2. Open any email with a link
3. Click link
Actual Results:  
Page does not load.

Expected Results:  
A new page should load.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

Your UA indicates that you are using a third-party build, which is not supported. Does this happen with an official build?

Links in Gmail messages should automatically open in a new tab/link. Have you set the hidden SWM pref to force all loads to re-use the same tab?

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Links in Gmail messages should automatically open in a new tab/link. Have you
> set the hidden SWM pref to force all loads to re-use the same tab?

I can repro the filed behaviour with this pref set in a trunk build, though I haven't tried 1.5.x yet.

Comment 3

[Stuart Morgan]

AFAIK that's expected with browser.link.open_newwindow=1; that's why it's not a real pref, and our hidden pref docs explicitly call out that it will break sites.

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

At least on trunk, it 'used to work' with that pref set. By 'used to work' I mean: the page would fully load in the same tab. It is possible that Gmail changed something in the way they handle URI internally, causing the described behaviour.

Comment 5

[philippe (part-time)]

Trying this in Minefield with Firebug, I see the same issue (of course), and it flags an error:
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I didn't get more out of it, unfortunately. (Firebug and Gmail don't get along so well it seems, as far as debugging is concerned.)

Comment 6

[Chris Recouvreur]

Yeah it was the single window mode option that seems to break their links. That happens with the official build as well. As soon as I removed the option it unbroke. Thanks.

Comment 7

[Stuart Morgan]

I'm going to close this as INVALID then, since my understanding is that it's expected that sites that attempt to do complex window manipulation may not work with that setting.

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

It used to work on branch, too, until Google changed something recently, but as Stuart says the "reuse window" setting isn't fully supported by Gecko and may break stuff.

Comment 9

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> It used to work on branch, too, until Google changed something recently

Which was rolling out the "Newer Version"; it still works fine in the "Older Version".  Last bugspam from me on this, I promise ;)