Possible IE Bug? Recreated on two different machines.

I'm not sure why this happens, but when ever I log into Gmail, the Gmail
browser starts getting the new page redirections from other IE windows.

I have been able to recreate this on two different machines:
Step 1:
Open a browser and navigate to:
http://www.riskglossary.com/articles/standard_deviation.htm. And leave it
open.
Step 2:
Open a new browser and log in to Gmail.
Step 3:
Click on Standard Deviation or Variance on the first browser and on my
computer these pages are opened in the Gmail browser and it doesn't scroll
down to those sections of the page (as it really should).

Good luck,

GuessWho

PS. only reply to the news group.

Shenan
Tue Aug 03 16:17:06 CDT 2004

John Smith wrote:
> I'm not sure why this happens, but when ever I log into Gmail, the
> Gmail browser starts getting the new page redirections from other IE
> windows.
>
> I have been able to recreate this on two different machines:
> Step 1:
> Open a browser and navigate to:
> http://www.riskglossary.com/articles/standard_deviation.htm. And
> leave it open.
> Step 2:
> Open a new browser and log in to Gmail.
> Step 3:
> Click on Standard Deviation or Variance on the first browser and on my
> computer these pages are opened in the Gmail browser and it doesn't
> scroll down to those sections of the page (as it really should).
>
> Good luck,
>
> GuessWho
>
> PS. only reply to the news group.

Does the same in Firefox.
Must be the use of the # in the a href.. which is where they are trying to
target something on the same page. And something pecular with GMAIL itself.

I would call this interesting, but should be reported to GMail and the owner
of the first page - not Microsoft as an IE bug - because it's not one.

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PA
Tue Aug 03 16:34:50 CDT 2004

You've got the wrong end of the stick: Gmail is the beta application, John,
not IE. Bug it to them.
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John Smith wrote:
> I'm not sure why this happens, but when ever I log into Gmail, the Gmail
> browser starts getting the new page redirections from other IE windows.
>
> I have been able to recreate this on two different machines:
> Step 1:
> Open a browser and navigate to:
> http://www.riskglossary.com/articles/standard_deviation.htm. And leave it
> open.
> Step 2:
> Open a new browser and log in to Gmail.
> Step 3:
> Click on Standard Deviation or Variance on the first browser and on my
> computer these pages are opened in the Gmail browser and it doesn't scroll
> down to those sections of the page (as it really should).
>
> Good luck,
>
> GuessWho
>
> PS. only reply to the news group.