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Bug 47837 - intermittent bogus modal alert when page has not been edited
intermittent bogus modal alert when page has not been edited
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Page editing (Other open bugs)
1.22.0
PC Windows 7
: High normal (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: browser-test-bug
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2013-04-29 17:50 UTC by Chris McMahon
Modified: 2013-12-12 20:47 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Web browser: Internet Explorer
Mobile Platform: ---
Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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bogus alert when page contents have not changed (56.62 KB, image/png)
2013-04-29 17:50 UTC, Chris McMahon 		Details
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Description Chris McMahon 2013-04-29 17:50:47 UTC 
Created attachment 12206 [details]
bogus alert when page contents have not changed

Seen in IE9 on beta labs enwiki: 

Open any editable page in IE9 (and probably in earlier versions of IE). 

Click the Edit tab. 
Click the Read tab. 

Upon doing this the user often but not always sees an alert saying "Are you sure you want to leave this page?..." as if the page had been edited, but the contents of the page have not changed. 

This is a significant cause of flaky browser test automation behavior, for example https://wmf.ci.cloudbees.com/job/browsertests-en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org-windows-internet_explorer_9/17/

I confirmed that this behavior happens when clicking Edit/Read manually as well.
Comment 1 Chris McMahon 2013-12-12 20:47:48 UTC 
overtaken by history
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