Firebug 1.4.5 Firefox 3.0.19 Windows Vista Business When clicking on a link on a Google search results page, I've found today that I have to click twice to get the browser to actually navigate to the link location. I've disabled all addons and narrowed it down to Firebug; this is not so much a problem with the functionality of Firebug (debugging sites and such) but rather a defect in the functionality of webpages (specifically Google's search results) while Firebug is active.
After the initial page load, I notice on Mouse Over of the link that the statusbar reflects the real page I'd like to visit. When I click the link, I see the statusbar change to something significantly longer (a long Google redirect URL) and then immediately change to "Done". Also, the box around the link showing that it is selected briefly appears (on click) and then disappears (after the script runs). Subsequent clicks will actually redirect me to the target page, even after navigating away and back to the search results page (using 'Back'). With Firebug disabled, or in other browsers, a single click immediately causes the browser to navigate to the page. There's another thing, too. If I click the link (once) and fail to navigate to the page, if I then hit reload (F5), the browser then loads the page that was the desired target of the link. It's as if the On Click script is attempting to set the window.location property of the browser, but it's just not "taking" it well. Unfortunately I don't know enough about Javascript or Google's link clicking functionality to tell you much more. Please let me know if I can explain this better or provide better details. I couldn't find any instances of this problem in the newsgroup discussions or in the issue reporting page, so I guess it's not too common. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Go to Google's homepage and search for something. You can search for 'Google' if you like. 2. Click any link on the results page (once). 3a. Click the same link again to actually get to the page. 3b. Hit Reload to be taken to the page you clicked. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
