Closed Bug 883668 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

link preview gives different results even for the same link

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
23 Branch
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 731106

People

(Reporter: jidanni, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130614 Firefox/23.0 Iceweasel/23.0a2 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20130614004016

Steps to reproduce:

You won't believe this one.
Install totally fresh Firefox.
Browse http://www.facebook.com/help/213481848684090/
(no account needed.)

See the
    Mozilla Firefox
    Safari
    Google Chrome
    Internet Explorer
list?

Well slowly move the pointer over one of them whilst watching the
lower left corner of the screen for link preview.

Now do it again on the same link.


Actual results:

Notice how the results are different now, even for the same link!!



Expected results:

Yes there is a reason.

But that's no excuse!

Now since you can't make up your mind,

why don't you show the user both.

Don't play double take or switcheroo.

And please don't mention extensions. I am not asking for any functionality. I am saying you have a bug in the way you present things.
I'm not able to repro the issue on Win 7.
Ok, I see what you mean:

1st over: tooltip displays 
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html&h=9AQFYwd6p&s=1

2nd over: tooltip displays
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

Code source:
<a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onmouseover="LinkshimAsyncLink.swap(this, &quot;http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/all.html&quot;);" onclick="LinkshimAsyncLink.swap(this, &quot;\/l.php?u=http\u00253A\u00252F\u00252Fwww.mozilla.com\u00252Fen-US\u00252Ffirefox\u00252Fall.html&amp;h=9AQFYwd6p&amp;s=1&quot;);">Mozilla Firefox</a>
Yes, and besides the security arguments which I am purposely not bringing up here, at least the program should not play eye games with the user.
I.e., be consistent.
Duplicate of bug 554176 / bug 731106.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
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