60946 - Page added several times to history due to document.write()

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 35340

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[Peter Janes]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001121
BuildID:    2000112108

When navigating to http://www.mozillazine.org/, the page is often added two or
three times to the browser history.  A similar occurrence happens when you
navigate to the 'build comments' page.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.mozillazine.org/
2. Check the back button's drop-down history or the 'go' menu.
3. optional: If it's not duplicated, try reloading once or twice.

Actual Results:  Two instances of 'Daily News - MozillaZine!' in the back button
and three in the 'go' menu.

Expected Results:  Should have seen a single instance of the page, and none in
the button's drop-down menu (until navigating forward from the page, of course).

This may be related to bug 48501.  I'll mark it as depending on the bug, as
suggested by bz in #mozillazine.

Comment 1

[Cyd]

That's odd. This is working for me, on the 2000112108 Linux build. Do you have
to do anything else to reproduce it?

Comment 2

[Peter Janes]

I just tried a fresh install of 2000112108 (from -sea.tar.gz), and it appears to
only occur when I have JavaScript turned on ("Enable JavaScript for Navigator").
 It must be the <script> tags for the banner ads.  I'll attach a copy of the
page with only the scripts (if I change them appreciably the problem disappears,
so they're almost verbatim).

Comment 3

[Peter Janes]

Attachment: Scripts from mozillazine.org

Comment 4

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

The problem is, the banner ad script has few document.write() which is not
currently handled by mozilla. Eric Pollmann has a bug on this. Once that is
fixed, this should get fixed automatically.

This is not related to 48501, where the multiple entries are created due to
pagfe refresh. Removing that dependency.

Comment 5

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

re-summarising

Comment 6

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

nav triage team: p3 for nsbeta1. 

Comment 7

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

*** Bug 62438 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

How related is bug 65483 ?

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 64183 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Marking nsbeta1+

Comment 11

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

This does depend on 35340. Will look in to this once 35340 is fixed. 

Comment 12

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

marking this dupe of 35340. Mozillazine doesn't have the ad anymore though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35340 ***

Comment 13

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED Dupe