Overview Description: When doing a DejaNews search, When I click on any of the links of the results, Mozilla locks up. Also, the layout of the results page looks a bit strange, in comparison to Netscape or IE. Steps to reproduce: Go to http://www.deja.com Type in some text to search for. (The last one I did was "SOFTFSB") Click the links for any of the results Actual results: Mozilla freezes up. I cannot click anywhere or do anything but kill Mozilla. Expected results: The link opens up in the browser, displaying one of the search result messages Build Date and Platform: Build ID 1999101812 Windows 98 Additional Information: I get the same results with my home PC running Win95. -WD

Although the page may have a table in it, this does not sound like a table problem. I couldn't reproduce the problem on WinNT using a different search. Kipp, if it is not your problem, maybe you know who should get it.

I'm seeing this on Win95, build ID 1999101808. See also bug 16282 and bug 9804. Could this be a dup of bug 16282? I'm trying to get a testcase together on this.

Sorry, I was a bit impatient there. I'm not getting a lock-up after all, just a long wait during which mozilla doesn't respond to anything and then finally loads the long page (exhibiting bug 9804). That would make this essentially a duplicate of bug 16282, but I think we should hear from the original reporter first: wdormann@crosswinds.net, are you sure mozilla doesn't become responsive again after a long wait (something like 5 min on my 300MHz PII)? I do have a reduced testcase, but I'll attach it to one of the other two bugs since it looks like this will be resolved DUPLICATE. Using Win95 M11 build ID 1999101808.

Yes, it appears that I too have been a bit impatient. As it turns out, Mozilla *does* start responding again, after a bit of time. (probably 5 minutes or so...) I noticed this when I left Mozilla running, and then came back to it later, and it was responding. But, the link that I clicked on 5 minutes or so ago does NOT come up. It's as if it's trying to do something, and then just times out and gives up. -WD

Oops, s/long page/wrong page/ in my earlier comment. We're seeing different symptoms, but I suspect the problem is the same. The page uses a LI as a graphical element inside a link above the table containing the search results. This prevents the link from closing. I'll add a testcase that removes only that single LI from the page so you can test if that fixes the problem for you too, in which case feel free to resolve this as dup of bug 7724 :-)

Added a testcase containing a fixed version of the search results page. The testcase does _not_ exhibit this bug (Win95, build ID 1999101808). Steps to make the testcase - go to www.deja.com - search discussions for "mozilla" You should now have a page that shows this bug. - edit the source - remove the <LI> preceding the text "Get more forums related to mozilla" - save it. That's it. If this fixed the bug then we have a dup.

Yup! That test case works properly for me, too. Looks like we've got a dup. Good work. -WD *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7724 ***

Verified dup of #7724