OK 1ST SOME BACKGROUND - I have a page showing the number of hits(or views) of any selected item. The hit counter procedure that is called at every page load i.e

    if (Request.QueryString.HasKeys())
    {
    // get item id from icoming url e.g details.aspx?itemid=26            

       string itemid = Request.Params["itemid"];


        if (!Page.IsPostBack)
        {
          countHit(itemid);
        }

    }

THE PROBLEM - My expectation was that the counter would be increased by 1 on every page load but the counters on my datalist and formview are always behind and stepped by 2 i.e

instead of 1, 2, 3, 4 its - 0, 2 , 4, 6

It seems that the page load is firing twice. Later I discovered that this only happens when you are using Mozilla Firefox. The page behaves fine with other browsers like IE

This becoming quite frustrating. CAN ANY1 HELP :-(