104634 - Pasting URL into "about:blank" location field should replace "about:blank"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Josh Sled]

Especially under X, it's a pain to have selected a URL from some other window,
paste it into the location bar, go back to the beginning of the URL, carefully
select "about:blank" and delete it.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Personally i'd like to see it overpaste anyting in urlbar - or a feature to
quickly wipe urlbar clean with one click. Whether that be about:blank or some
other text.

On a related note: I filed bug 103329 regarding about:blank displaying in new
tabs. (It shouldn't appear there at all on Ctrl+t)

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

can't find exact dups - resolving as new. This is a usability issue regarding
the URL-bar and pasting on linux that i'd like to see implemented.

Comment 3

[Josh Sled]

WRT the overpaste _anything_, that won't work, especially for long URLs that get
wrapped [perhaps by *ahem*Exchange*ahem* IMAP servers that reformat mail], thus
requiring multiple pastes to have a complete URL.

WRT the about:blank not appearing on new tabs: I disagree.  Whatever happens in
the browser normally [read: w/o tabs] should happen per-tab as well...

Perhaps the "Blank page" pref really means: "blank page and empty location bar",
thus making this a non-issue...?

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

exactly: whatever happens normally should happen in tabs as well.
And when i open a new window, it's blank, and no "about:blank" is written in
URL-field.

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

reassigning url bar bugs to default owner.

Comment 6

[[not reading bugmail]]

about:blank was removed on open, because people didn't wanna add an extra step
in deleting the about:blank before typing.

Comment 7

[hana.skoumalova]

This bug reappeared in the newest builds (my build is 2002041722 for Solaris
2.6). When a new tab is opened the url bar contains about:blank. It should be
empty so that a URL could be pasted there.

Comment 8

[Artur Polaczynski]

confirm on
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020911 MultiZilla/v1.1.22
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826

It's still here 

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

about:blank should be hidden, so fixing this shouldn't be necessary.  It's
hidden on new tab for me in Seamonkey and Firebird now.

Comment 10

[Andrew Schultz]

Yes, the only way you should be able to get about:blank into the URL bar now is to type it yourself.

resolving INVALID since the reported problem is no longer relevant