46912 - Aborting a page load can result in narrow vertical/horizontal scrollbars

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[John Morrison]

The following was noted at the end of bug 42974 (which was for narrow
scrollbars that appeared on the main page of http://www.aol.fr/ due to
the fact that that entire page was generated in javascript document.write).

This bug covers the fact that aborting a load of a page results in narrow
vertical scrollbars and is reproducible in current builds. However, a 
subsequent reload of the page will result in normal width scrollbars.

Comments at the end of bug 42974:
  ------- Additional Comments From Chris Nelson 2000-07-28 20:16 -------
  
  Reopening this bug. Reproducible (got confirmation in #mozillazine)
  
  Using a 2000072808 build for Windows, follow these steps:
  
  1) Load a page like www.icq.com or www.cnn.com (I think any page will do,
  but I was able to get the bug to occur on these pages).
    
  2) Hit the stop button before the page loads. This is the tricky part. You
  need to let enough of the page load in that when you hit the stop button
  it will lay out and require a vertical scrollbar. But you don't want so
  much to come in that the scrollbar appears before you hit the stop button.
    
  3) If for some reason you don't get a scrollbar after stopping the page
  load, try resizing the window smaller so that a scrollbar will appear.
    
  4) The scrollbar will be as described in the original report for this bug.
  
  
  
  ------- Additional Comments From David Krause 2000-07-28 20:29 -------
  
  Sigh, I guess this was only a partial fix.  I can reproduce it on a linux
  cvs tip build from an hour ago.  I can reproduce it on several different
  pages.  This may affect every page.
  
  
  
  ------- Additional Comments From David Krause 2000-07-28 20:43 -------
  
  This sucks.  I've reproduced this on many pages now including:
  
  http://www.netscape.com/
  http://www.microsoft.com/
  http://www.cnn.com/
  
  Hopefully this can be fixed before nsbeta2/m17 ships.

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

Since the normal intent of hitting stop during a page load is "I don't want
this page" [or some other exceptional condition], then this really has to go
into the future bin. Reloading the page will restore the scrollbars to normal
width.   -> Future

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

*** Bug 70574 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

worksforme moz2003052808/win98se
old bug -> assume wfm for everyone else as well -> wfm