[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6131: WordPress 2.3.3 TinyMce will not load properly in linux

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#6131: WordPress 2.3.3 TinyMce will not load properly in linux
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 Reporter:  johncub  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  2.6      
Component:  TinyMCE  |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal   |    Keywords:           
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 '''Server setup''':

 WordPress 2.3.3[[BR]]
 hosted on Apache 2.2 win32 Binary without crypto (no_mod_ssl)[[BR]]
 php 5.2.5 win32 running as module[[BR]]
 mysql 5.0.51a-community-nt-log (hosted externally - win2k3)[[BR]]
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 '''Problem description''':  I already had php, mysql and apache running
 smoothly before installing wordpress.  I installed wordpress, edited the
 default post and all was well.  It was up and running.  When I got home
 and my client was linux / firefox I was able to navigate the pages of my
 blog but I was not able to post a new entry, ie use /wp-admin/post-
 new.php.  It would start to load the page and hang for as long as was
 allowed.  Even during this time I could log in and go to the same page and
 post a new post in a windows client while linux was waiting for something.
 It seemed as though something hated baby linux.  :P  Windows did not have
 a problem.


 '''Known software effected'''[[BR]]
 All linux based, FireFox 1.5, FireFox 2.0, FireFox 3 Beta 3, Opera/9.25



 '''Things I did to try to figure out what the problem was''':[[BR]]
 Initiated packet logging on the linux client then sent the request to the
 server for /wp-admin/post-new.php[[BR]]
 ''last packet sent was[[BR]]
 {{{GET /wordpress/wp-includes/js/jquery/interface.js??ver=1.2 HTTP/1.1}}}
 ''[[BR]]
 Thusly I turned off javascript in linux to see what would happen.  page
 loaded fine. fancy that.
 [[BR]][[BR]]
 Later that same day a colleague across the country attempted to post a new
 entry using linux again to find the same problem:  Page would not load
 unless javascript was turned off.
 [[BR]][[BR]]
 Tested same software packages on another server (win 2003 corp) with all
 other factors being the same and was able to reproduce the problem by
 attempting to post-new.php with a linux/ff client.
 [[BR]]

 '''Workaround identified (Firefox/linux)''':
 While it could be considered that turning off javascript is a workaround I
 don't think its one most people would want.  My colleague noted that in
 about:config (firefox) one could change the setting
 "javascript.options.strict" to true, load the post-new.php, then turn that
 setting back to false and it will load post-new.php henceforth until your
 cache is cleared in firefox.

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 '''Steps to reproduce'''[[BR]]
 1. Be on a linux / firefox or opera machine.[[BR]]
 2. Clear your cache[[BR]]
 3. Visit a Wordpress 2.3.3 admin site and attempt to write a new
 post.[[BR]]
 4. set javascript.options.strict to TRUE [[BR]]
 5. visit the new-post.php and allow the editor to load.[[BR]]
 6. turn javascript.options.strict to FALSE if you like (gets rather
 verbose otherwise)

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