event handler prevents following link

[trolly]

Hi,
the following event handler prevents following the link it is attached to. Does anyone have an idea why?

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this.trackExteralLink = function(event) {
  var $anchor = $(event.currentTarget);
  var url = $anchor.attr('href');
  // check if external link
  if (cnIvwHelper.checkIfExternalURL(url) === true) {
    var category = 'Outgoing Link';
    var action = 'click';
    // No Race Condition on new target ... just log the stuff.
    if (typeof($anchor.attr('target')) !== "undefined") {
      cnLog('Tracking External Click - in new Window');
      trackGAEvent(category, action, url, 0, false);
    } else {
      event.preventDefault();
      cnLog('Tracking External Click - in same Window');
      trackGAEvent(category, action, url, 0, false, (function() {
        setTimeout(function() {
          window.location = url;
        }, 200);
      }));
    }
  }
}

Page: http://www.glamour.de/glamunity/login
The link is

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<a href="http://www.glamour.de/login.php?do=lostpw" class="float-right">Passwort vergessen? &gt;</a>

[Dom1953]

Hi Trolly,
Unfortunately this worked for me. Clicking the forgotten password link took me to the lost password page. This more or less immediately replaced itself with the main site home page. Clicking a menu item, Videos, again took me to a login page which, this time, replaced itself with the Videos page. Am I seeing the login/password page because of a slower network and/or PC perhaps?

[trolly]

You had JS enabled? Then maybe an addon causes the malfunction.

Thanks for the report.

[Dom1953]

Yes to JS enabled. FWIW, today the "login.php?do=lostpw" link is serving up the forum main page immediately with no intermediary forgotten password page. The address bar and page history, however, both show the lost pw URL as the page address. I assume you know about this.

You're welcome.

[trolly]

No, I didn't. When I click the link with JS disabled I get the lost pw page.

[Dom1953]

I've retested with cleared caches and javascript both enabled and disabled and closing Firefox between changes.

It seems I was not recognizing the lost password page properly. I now do, after applying my limited German more fully with help of page visuals. My sincere apologies for this confusion.

What I can reproduce is that clicking the lost pw link navigates to the lost password page, irrespective of whether javascript is enable or disabled in my running of Firefox.

[trolly]

Ok.
Thanks.

I guess I have to examine my addons.