main-page issues

[prathapml]

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Have a small bug.

When going in to view any news article from the main-page, the link to go back to front-page on left-side bar doesn't work. It simply re-loads the current page (because the link is to the current page itself on non-IE browsers).

Steps to reproduce the above:

1. Going to any article from front-page, example - clicking this.

2. Now in the left-bar, there's a hyper-link at top-left of page - called front-page.

3. Now clicking that goes to re-load current-page, but doesn't take me back to front-page.

Used to happen even before, but I thought its only happening to me. But then after confirming this, mustered enough courage to report this!

Tested on Opera 7.60p1 and firefox 0.10 - both have this problem. Maybe something about standards-compliancy....

But when testing in IE6SP2, it works perfectly (in the way it should). But still, opera and firefox users are not such a small group.

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One more! This also been around ever since I first came to msfn.

If I come to the msfn home-page (msfn.org/index.php), and then login from there (using link at top of page), the login is not valid on the forum! Going to any page inside the forum says I haven't logged-in. In other words, I'm a valid member login, on front-page, but forums says I'm a guest.

But if I login from forums, the login is valid for everything (the forums, the main-page, and to view all the articles).

Could it be related to the integration of VirtuaNews with IPB - like only a one-way caching of logins, due to the virtuanews module not being given write permission to forums' side of login.

And this one happens with IE *AND* opera. But interestingly, Mozilla/firefox is not having this problem - its able to remember my login whether I login at front-page or at forums.

And telling this for the sake of more details - I have disabled that prompt which asks whether I want it to remember password. But that should not matter, I think.

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Hehe... what a bad dis-agreement between browsers out there.

I have no problem even if these weren't fixed - I have all the browsers in use, so I just use a different browser if one doesn't display a page properly, lol. But since I noticed this bug, thought I'd rather report it.

[XtremeMaC]

well i've just tried this (never realized it b4.)

i'm on opera 7.23 & 7.60 i just logged out from the forum and I'm still logged in on the frontpage.

[prathapml]

well i've just tried this (never realized it b4.)

i'm on opera 7.23 & 7.60 i just logged out from the forum and I'm still logged in on the frontpage.

Well.... Blame it on my lack of sleep, but I don't get what you mean. Are you reporting another bug, or are you saying one of the above is _NOT_ a bug?

If it *IS* a bug, did you first try refreshing the page, or trying this on a *CLEAN* browser (with no history/cookies). Ya, I know that you'd have done this, but I'm just asking this to get more info out of you. 'Coz to be able to fix it, we need steps to *reproduce* the same behaviour.

[XtremeMaC]

i'm reporting a bug

i just tested what u've said and then logged out of the forum, then opened the frontpage and I was still logged in.

well frankly i don't have any problems with it but just testing it as an opera user...