From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 BuildID: 2002051006 This one's been bugging me a long time. When you visit thestreet.com and I middle click to open a news story in a new window, the original main thestreet.com page also reloads. So if I'm trying to middle click a couple of stories at once it usually all goes awry because after the first middle click the original page reloads as well. I know thestreet.com does an auto-reload every 5 minutes or so, so I don't know if the bug is somehow related to this but I know it definitely doesn't wait the allotted time. I am using the option "middle click opens tabbed browser links in background". Not sure if that is also a factor. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set options "middle click opens tabbed window" and "opens link in background". 2.visit www.thestreet.com 3. middle mouse click one of the stories Actual Results: The original web page reloads for some strange reason. Expected Results: Only the news story should be loading in the background. The main page should stay put.

The page installs an onresize handler that reloads the page. Opening a new tab causes the page to resize. Does the tabbar appear when you open this new tab? Or is it already present?

The tabber appears when I open the new tab, so that explains it, though I'm not sure if it excuses it. I'm not familiar with the purpose of "onresize handlers", but is it appropriate to disable it for this situation? This is just the sort of web site that is great for tabbed browsing (i.e. main web page leads to multiple stories), but the reload thing wrecks the experience. I am aware that there is some option for making the tabs appear permanently, but I wouldn't like to resort to that.

Well.. it _could_ be disabled. But that would break pages that do useful things like move stuff around onresize (after all, the size of the content area _did_ change). This is evangelism -- this page reloads on resize because it thinks we are NS4.

Well, I'd like an option to turn it off, just like I'd like an option to turn off auto-reload. These both drive me crazy. When I want it to reload, I'll press reload thanks very much.

You want bug 64737 -- security policies for event handlers. That would let you just disable all onresize event handlers.

tech evang june 2003 reorg

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009. If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself. Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.