On May 25, 11:09 am, siv0r <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Use url "about:config" then look for preferences named:
extensions.firebug.
reset these to their default value. Does that help?

Create a new Firefox profile and install firebug: Do you still see the
problem?

I hope one of these work for you.
jjb


>
> 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.

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