91064 - Various major flaws emerge after clicking "javascript:figure1()" link

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Jarno Seppänen]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)
BuildID:    2001062815

In the above URL there's a technical paper. In the top of the page, there's a 
set of links below the title "Popup figures". The links are all of 
type "javascript:figure1()". A click on *one* of them causes various flaws:
- the Mozilla "m"/lizard brand logo completely disappears from the Navigation 
Toolbar
- right-clicking a link won't give the menu it should (with Open Link in New 
Window etc.)
- the status line on bottom of the browser window stops showing link locations 
when mouse is moved on top of a link; it just shows "Document: Done (0.791 
secs)" permanently
- after quiting Mozilla and trying to re-run it, Mozilla won't start unless I 
manually kill the remaining mozilla.exe from Windows NT Task Manager

Clicking on *several* of the "javascript:figureN()" links causes more flaws:
- one or two of the back/forward/reload/stop icons disappear completely from 
the Navigation Toolbar; moving the mouse over the icons causes flickering
- when an html link on the page is clicked, Mozilla won't load the new page
- occasionally, Mozilla stops responding to any keyboard input: I couldn't 
scroll the page with arrow keys, nor type into the URL line on the Navigation 
Toolbar or into the Bugzilla entry boxes in another browser window


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter http://extreme.indiana.edu/~tveldhui/papers/2000/tmpw00/page1.html
2. click the link reading "Comparison of compiler structures", right 
under "Popup figures"
3. observe flaws
4. randomly click more of the popup figure links
5. observe more flaws

Comment 1

[Chi-Thanh Christopher Nguyen]

I confirm this on

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010630 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010716 

Mozilla won't exit cleanly afterwards.
On the 0.9.2 release the first time I click on a link the bug does not show up,
so I have to try twice.

Comment 2

[Lasse Marøen]

Strange. I tested this in  20010714 and it worked fine. Then I installed
20010717 and tried it again, this time I had to kill Mozilla. This is a bit
strange since the reporter used an older build than 20010714 which worked fine
for me.

This is the javascript function being called:

function figure1() {
props=window.open('fig1.html', 'poppage',
"toolbars=0,width=729,height=301,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,location=0,statusbars=0,menubars=0");
props.document.close();
}

The whole app becomes unusable, so I'm upgrading severity to critical.

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not engine. Reassigning to DOM Level 0 - 

Comment 4

[Phil Schwartau]

Confirming bug with Mozilla 20010713xx WinNT. After clicking on 
these links, an unseen mozilla.exe process is launched...

Comment 5

[Fabian Guisset]

Is it just me or did the page change?

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

WORKSFORME, please reopen if this still happens...