Closed Bug 78914 Opened 24 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Page refreshes every 3 seconds [window.location after a plugins.refresh(1)]

Categories

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout
Platform:
x86
Other
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

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Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

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(Reporter: jaimejr, Assigned: serhunt)

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Build ID: 2001050204 Reproducible: Always Steps: 1. Launch the browser 2. Enter the URL www.family.com 3. Log-In to your family Web site, with the Weather Sidebar tab open Results: Page is continually reloaded every 5 - 10 seconds. I can't read a thing, because this thing is blinking!
Adding vishy and tpringle to cc: list. Nominating for nsbeta1.
Keywords: nsbeta1
Haven't seen this behavior in the latest builds. Consider it close as WFM, unless anyone objects. I will let u know, if i see it again.
Severity: normal → major
sorry, this is still happening. looks pretty bad!!! </*^( It cycles through a whole bunch of pages or ads really quickly. The full page never renders completely. cc: aruner
Keywords: nsCatFood
Summary: Page refreshes every 5 - 10 seconds → Page refreshes every 3 seconds
I think this one should be looked at for TM0.9.4. This is a fairly popular site, and our browser is not working well with it.
*** Bug 90532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
we will start the investigation...
Assignee: asa → neeti
Component: Browser-General → Networking
QA Contact: doronr → benc
Does anyone have a test account for this website?
Assignee: neeti → dougt
we continually reflowing. over to layout.
Assignee: dougt → karnaze
Component: Networking → Layout
QA Contact: benc → petersen
The test account that I created is: Username: testmoz Password: testmoz
Reassigning to attinasi.
Assignee: karnaze → attinasi
Keywords: qawanted
It sure looks like the page is actually reloading, not just reflowing. Notice that the location bar is changing each time, and pressing ESCAPE will stop it from doing this cycling too. I'll investigate - narrowing the testcase would help ;) (NOTE: you will have to save the testcase locally to avoid Bugzilla interrupting the fun)
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
*** Bug 93454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I checked earlier today, and the MyFamily.com site no longer exhibits the continual reload behavior. I don't think that the MyFamily.com site has changed its code to fix the problem since Netscape 6.1 Final still exhibits the reload behavior.
Steven - Are you saying it is no longer happening with trunk builds, but is still a problem for the released version?
Yes, the trunk builds no longer continually reload, but the release versions still do. After closer inspection, the browser does reload the page once, but then remains on the second page. If you look in the history pull-down menu, you can see that it has indeed reloaded once.
hello . . . anyone there? is still an issue? can we verify and close this one out?
I cannot reproduce this anymore. Marking FIXED
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
This bug is not completely fixed. It does reload the page once for every family page that is loaded. Access a family page and then go to the history. You will see that it did reload once. While the site is now useable, there are still some issues with it. I wouldn't consider it fixed.
Tyrning off JS stops the problem. Anyone want to dig into the script and see what is causing this? Reopening to send elsewhere, since it is immediatly apparent that this is a layout issue.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
man, this is annoying. 0.9.4 seems to only refresh once, thank goodness. 0.9.3 refreshed continually, and my wife avoids using mozilla altogether because of this bug [myfamily.com is her favorite site]. i voted for this bug.
Voting is great, but helping reduce the testcase would be even better! I'm pretty sure it is a script issue since turning off JS fixes it, but I am not yet sure.
Blocks: 104166
I've got a testcase that will consistently get the page to flash when you hit refresh. The culprit is an OBJECT tag: <html> <body> <object width="1" height="1" classid="CLSID:21F16767-8DA7-4113-BEB0-F161B313407F" id="XMirageCheck"> </object> some content </body> </html> Hope this helps. Cheers!
(BTW: I'm running 0.9.5 on Win2K and the test case refreshes once. Sometimes it doesn't refresh, try hitting F5 a couple of times.)
Thanks Ben! sending to Peter L to check out (he is the plugin liason to layout)
Assignee: attinasi → peterl
Status: REOPENED → NEW
The problem is that there is a navigation via a window.location after a plugins.refresh(true). Their combination of javascript causes us to get stuck in this loop because they have found a way to get around our check for this condition. Re-assign to Andrei because he worked on this before....
Assignee: peterl → av
Keywords: qawanted
Summary: Page refreshes every 3 seconds → Page refreshes every 3 seconds [window.location after a plugins.refresh(1)]
If the script contains navigator.plugins.refresh(1) the page is supposed to be reloaded. We have a number of problems with this, endless reload loop being the worst. This loop has been fixed with the patch to bug 93351. Also, after fixing bug 119621 even one time reload will be prevented if it is not necessary. In that patch we actully check if any changes have been made to the plugins folder and do not refresh plugins/reload page if no changes are detected. Marking dependency.
Depends on: 119621
Now, as bug 119621 is fixed, marking this one fixed too. Please also note that under some circumstances there are still possible reload loops, see bug 124936.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago → 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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