256050 - hitting reload before page loads loses url

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Jamie Zawinski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

Here's the scenario where this happens:

1: middle-click to open a url in a new window
2: the server is slow, and *no* response has come back yet
   (I think this only happens if no http headers have yet been read)
3: note that the window is blank, but with the url in the url text field
4: hit reload
5: the url text field is cleared, and nothing reloads.  now there's a blank
   window and the url has been lost.

So the url is not getting associated with the window until much later than the
time when the url is visible in the url bar.

The only workaround is to remember that if there's nothing visible in the
window, the way you reload is to click in the url field and hit return, instead
of using the reload button.  Which I often forget.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

this regressed between linux trunk 2003121909 and 2003122007, but nothing there
looks relevant.

see also bug 125772

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I cannot reproduce this