639431 - When surfing to http://lxr.linux.no/linux/ Firefox appears to go into an inifnite redirect loop

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Holm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12

When I tried using http://lxr.linux.no/linux/ (the Linux source cross reference) using Firefox 4b12 it appeares to go into an infinit redirect loop. http://lxr.linux.no/linux/ automatically redirects to http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.37.2/ which in turn redirects back to http://lxr.linux.no/linux/.
I tried the site using Chrome the IE Tab Firefox-extension but the behavior did not appear in either of them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter http://lxr.linux.no/linux/ in the location bar
2. Press enter
3. Stand back while your browser goes into inside redirects
Actual Results:  
The browser appears to infinitely redirect back and fort between http://lxr.linux.no/linux/ <-> http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.37.2/.

Expected Results:  
It should not redirect or at least that is what I expect since neither Chrome or IE Tab does it but there's a possibility there is an error in the HTML- or JavaScript-code at http://lxr.linux.no/linux/.

Comment 1

[David Holm]

Attachment: Recording of described behavior

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This is wfm with FF4.0b12 and Seamonkey trunk on win32.
Please try to clear the disk cache

Comment 3

[David Holm]

Hi Matthias,
Thank you for the quick reply. I tried clearing the cache from settings -> advanced but the problem will appeared so I restarted FF and cleared the cache once again but it still persists.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please try a new profile: http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing%20profiles

Comment 5

[David Holm]

I will try a new profile at work tomorrow but wanted to add that this issue does not appear on my FF 4.0b12 on OSX.

Comment 6

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Reporter, please can you confirm whether this issue still occurs using Firefox 4.0.1 (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/new/) or higher, in Firefox safe mode (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode) and/or with a clean profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile). Ideally, also check using the latest nightly: http://nightly.mozilla.org/

If this issue no longer occurs, please close as "Resolved Worksforme".

It it in fact still occurs, please provide as much extra information as possible, including what versions tried, whether safe mode/new profile tested etc. Thanks! :-)

(Template reply to inactive UNCO bugs; also setting closemedate for 2 weeks time, given lack of activity).

Comment 7

[David Holm]

Seems to be resolved in 4.0.1. Thank you!

Comment 8

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Thanks for updating the status! :-)