Thursday, April 23, 2009

IE7 Tab Spawning issue with Follower (FriendConnect) gadget




I've posted an entry in Blogger Help Group about a frustrating problem that I faced with the Follower gadget. Apparently, no responses yet from anybody or from Blogger, is it only my problem or others just being ignorant. The post is copied below:




Hi,

I would like to report a possible bug of the Follower gadget when it
is added and run under IE7. The versions of IE7 i have tested are
7.0.5730.11 and 7.0.5730.13. IE8 and FireFox seems not affected by the
issue.


Symptoms:


When you opened multiple tabs in IE7 and one of the tab is loading the
page that contains the Follower gadget, if you close that tab before
the page loaded completely, IE7 will open new tabs indefinitely, at
random chance.


If you have multiple instances of IE7, the tab openings will be done
in the first instance of IE7 and proceed to second instance if you
manage to kill the first instance of IE7.


Currently, I need to kill all instances of IE7 to stop the tabs from
being opened.


It is mostly a design limitation of how IE7 handles some of the
Javascript calls, but I think that the team should make the gadget
less affected by such behaviors.


Thank you.


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