navagating while updating update-panel - asp.net

I have build an asp.net web site with 3 pages.
One of the pages has an update panel. It takes the server few seconds to update this panel.
When the client asks the server to update this panel, and tries to navigate to another page in my site at the same time - a problem occurs on FF only: the client cannot submit request to navigate to another page. Its request seems to be stuck (via firebug).
I googled and found that when a ajax request is invoked, the update panel is blocked and no other request to the server can be handeled. Is that so? Does someone can shed some light about the problem and how to solve it?
Thanks in advance.

This may be to do be firefox not being able to resolve the __doPostBack call correctly? When __doPostBack is called, if the script is unsuccessful in making the ajax call it falls back to a full post back of the client. Try looking into differencing of how firefox might handle this script call, not sure of the exact solution, but hope it helps.

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It sounds like your ajax is the cause but without seeing some code, it's difficult to know why.
It could be a timeout, or an error that is preventing the ajax from completing it's function.
You need to use a tool like Charles or Fiddler to debug what is happening whilst the page loads whilst logged in as these users. In a nutshell, a tool like Charles will display all the detail surrounding requests made and responses served to the browser, including any failed responses.
I think it has to do with http headers, caching or encoding. But I cannot tell more without code.
Is output caching enabled for this page?
Can you give us the raw http headers for both the request and response?
If a white screen appears, will it be fixed by pressing ctrl+f5?

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I have a problem in my asp.net pages
We are using form authentication. Once page is signed out I am able to go back to the previous page. This is due to pages cached in browser.
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I'm thinking...
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1) The client-side javascript logic in the browser sends the HTTP request to the server.
2) The server-side ASP.NET page processes it and responds.
3) The client-side logic receives the response and updates the web page, or whatever.
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Ya know, your standard debugging binary search...

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