cannot navigate away with Firefox 3.6.11 beta
 
   
  
 
 
UPDATE:  Apparently this was a problem with the firefox 3.6.11 beta; with the release version of 3.6.11 I no longer have this problem.
 
I don't know if this is a bug with Firefox or askbot, but it is pretty surprising behavior.  I reported the following to Mozilla, but decided I might mention it here too:
 
 
I installed Firefox 3.6.11 beta today.
  When I visit the sites
 
http://askbot.org
 
or 
 
http://ask.sagemath.org
 
I cannot navigate away using the URL
  bar or search box:  using either seems
  to behave as if I had used the search
  feature for that site.
 
3 further notes:
 
     
  • I use these sites regularly and
  have not encountered this behavior
  before
    •  
  • Clicking a bookmark in my bookmark
  toolbar does take me to the expected
  page (away from the site)
    •  
  • I do not have this behavior on
  stackexchange sites like
  mathoverflow.net or stackoverflow.com
    •  
 
thanks!
 
 
 
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    updated 14 years ago 
 
 
 
 
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        Do you have this problem if you type in the browser address bar: http://askbot.org/en/questions/ ? If the issue goes away, it will mean that the problem is in the redirects. The '/' automatically redirects to '/questions/', maybe it's better not to redirect at all.
      
 
 Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (14 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 

        Yes, I seem to have this problem no matter what I type into the address bar; there have been a couple of cases where I managed to navigate away, but I can't reproduce them :(
      
 
 niles's avatar niles (14 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 

        (so I think this must be a Firefox beta problem)
      
 
 niles's avatar niles (14 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 

        I have no problem like this one at 3.6.10. It may be Firefox bug indeed, but let's see if others have this problem too.
      
 
 Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (14 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
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