630229 - Disruptive clicks on links in discovery pane lead to stub being displayed while target is loading

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Dimitri Saltanov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b11pre) Gecko/20110131 Firefox/4.0b11pre ID:20110131030335

When successively clicking some links in the disco pane (such as featured addons) before one of it has loaded, the pane switches to display the 'What are addons?' stub. The last clicked link eventually loads and gets displayed again, but depending on the quality of connection displaying of the stub leads either to flicker or, on less than ideal connection, to a hardly expected 'black out'.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Quickly click any target=_self links in the disco pane 2 or more times.

Comment 1

[Jeff Balogh (:jbalogh)]

Is this related to bug 630120?

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

It's likely that clicking link while another link is loading makes the request for the first link get cancelled with some kind of error and the code in bug 601143 just displays the error page for any kind of error. If we can detect that it is just user cancelled then we ought to be able to stop this happening.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.