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Flow: user always getting "are you sure you want to leave this page?" pop-up when exiting a flow page
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Reported by Risker:

"when trying to exit pages with Flow on this project, I am now getting the standard microsoft "are you sure you want to leave this page?" pop-up, and I have to decide whether to leave or stay on the page before moving on. This has happened with both Firefox and IE9 in the last few days. Could we please not have that? It's one thing for a warning message when one is mid-edit and about to leave a page, but simply viewing a page shouldn't have this result."

(The onbeforeunload confirmation was originally added in https://trello.com/c/xnvffWYB/ or https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/148983/ in case that helps.)


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz70586

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:44 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz70586.
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Currently Unconfirmed/Unreproduced.

On trello at https://trello.com/c/327hZ6nv/

Created attachment 16437
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(Update with notes from Risker)

This was the process:

  • View my notifications onwiki
  • follow link in my notifications messages to "Doug Weller created a new topic on Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject Breakfast
  • Read (only read!) the threads on the page. No attempt at all to type anything anywhere.
  • click "Watchlist" link in the upper right to return to my watchlist
  • Get this error message.

(Note from Quiddity)
I've tried again to reproduce, but cannot. :-/

Attached:

unnamed.jpg (592×1 px, 207 KB)

(In reply to Quiddity from comment #2)

Created attachment 16437 [details]
screenshot

(Update with notes from Risker)

This was the process:

  • View my notifications onwiki
  • follow link in my notifications messages to "Doug Weller created a new

topic on Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject Breakfast

  • Read (only read!) the threads on the page. No attempt at all to type

anything anywhere.

  • click "Watchlist" link in the upper right to return to my watchlist
  • Get this error message.

(Note from Quiddity)
I've tried again to reproduce, but cannot. :-/

Just for the record, this was on Windows 7/IE9 using Monobook. After playing around a bit more, it seems to happen only when following a link from Notifications the first time; returning to the page either separately or through notifications does not seem to reproduce.

Attached:

unnamed.jpg (592×1 px, 207 KB)

@SBisson is this a duplicate of T95909 or something slightly different?
The original bug report said that it had been reproduced in Firefox as well as IE, so I'm not sure...