Mark Gandolfo's Blog

For the life of me I couldn't work out why every time I clicked on a new advert in my new classifieds section I'm developing it would count as two clicks in firefox.

After a bit of research I've found that if firefox finds an empty img src, i.e. img src="", then it reloads the page hoping it'll automatically appear.

I wonder why the moz devs decided this was a smart idea, is this part of the w3c? Anyway, to resolve, simply remove all of the empty src tags.

Update

Christopher Blizzard emailed me last night explaining that the mozilla team has rectified this in firefox 3.5. He did point out that 3.0 suffers from it, as well as Safari & IE.

He also was kind enough to submit a link Empty Image Tags Can Destroy Your Site. Its a good read, with some possible solutions to the double page request issue.