440516 - URL in the statusbar when cursor is on image points to URL of current phpBB forum topic

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ivica]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0

First of all, please don't mind the picture that describes it.
When i browse some forums, with pictures that are uploaded to imageshack for example, my statusbar reads the URL of the current topic, instead of the URL of that image ( e.g: forum.mozilla.org/viewtopic.php?t=1111 is being displayed instead of http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/image.jpg ).

When I move the cursor away from the image, then put it back on, the image URL is being displayed correctly as it should.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Ivica]

I just wanted to add that the cursor was on the picture in the moment of screenshot taking, only my program missed it.

Sorry for my English, i'm from Serbia.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The statusbar shows that because that's where the link goes: the HTML in the post is (abbreviated somewhat) "<a href="http://imageshack.us"><a href=""><img src="http://imageshack.us/pic.jpg"></a></a>" and since links absolutely cannot be nested like that, Firefox treats it as <a href="imageshack"></a><a href=""><img></a>, and so the image is linked to "", which is the URL of the page where you are.

Comment 3

[Ivica]

Also noticed that with tinypic.com and some other image hosting websites. Don't know is that a Firefox bug or choppy thumbnail code, but version 2.0.0.14 haven't had problem with that.
I also checked with several other phpBB forums, and it's always the same.

Comment 4

[Ivica]

My appologies to all. It was choppy image resizing code that few of those forums use. Aparently, it's no bug.