Bug 28870 – LinkedIn re-directs to an ad

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WORKSFORME
• Component: Layout and Rendering

[Morten Norby Larsen]

This one seems to depend on certain ads on LinkedIn's pages, mostly internal ones.

As ads rotate, and may be targeted differently to different users, I would imagine that it is not always reproducible to every username.

Steps to reproduce (with the above disclaimer):

 0 - Log in to LinkedIn. This will of course require a registration.
 1 - The personal home page with updates from your network usually shows without problems.
 2 - Click on a link to a user's profile page, for instance <user this-and-that> is now connected to <some other user>.

What happens:

 a. The user's profile page starts loading, and shows (briefly) in the browser.
 b. The page turns blank.
 c. An ad (or sometimes, two ads) shows in the window.
 d. The original URL in the address field in the toolbar does not change.
 e. The page source contains what seems to the be the "real" page.

[Morten Norby Larsen]

Created attachment 38856 [details]
A page that exhibits the problem.

[Morten Norby Larsen]

Created attachment 38857 [details]
A screenshot of how the page is rendered. 

This is the same page as the one in the web archive in the previous attachment.

[Morten Norby Larsen]

I should add that it works as expected in Firefox 3.5, and pages with certain, different ads (or no ads at all) also work as expected in WebKit.app.

[Morten Norby Larsen]

Somehow it doesn't happen any more, whether by an improvement to the site or to WebKit. Or Safari.

Tested on r55974