585495 - Redirects (302 Found) aren't being followed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, defect)

Description

[Marcel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100807 Minefield/4.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b4pre) Gecko/20100807 Minefield/4.0b4pre

After updating to Minefield/4.0b4pre with TabCandy (built 07-Aug-2010) the browser won't follow any "302 Found" any more. This problem did not occur in Minefield/4.0b3pre with TabCandy (I think built on 25-Jul-2010). Except from updating no changes have been made by me whatsoever.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the "Search" link at the top of this page
2. Click on the "Search" button at the bottom of the following page
Actual Results:  
Seeing the following page with the title "302 Found":

Found

The document has moved here.


Expected Results:  
The browser following the redirect automatically.

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Do you have adblock or noscript installed? There's changes to some network code that broke some popular add-ons that change the behavior of handling requests.

Comment 2

[Marcel]

Ah, thanks. I really should have thought of deactivating the add-ons. Adblock was the trouble maker.

Comment 3

[(no longer active)]

Mass moving all Tab Candy bugs from Mozilla Labs to Firefox::Tab Candy.  Filter the bugmail spam with "tabcandymassmove".