201462 - requested URL is lost on timeout

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 104778

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Uri Dor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

if I try to open a page and the operation times out (server dead, ISP fails
again), the URL disappears from the address bar and is replaced by
"about:blank". This is very disappointing, especially when I open several tabs
in the background and then find out that the pages weren't loaded and the
refresh button won't help me get them, because the URL is not "about:blank".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open some URL where the server is down, or try any URL when you're disconnected
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
the address bar reads "about:blank"

Expected Results:  
the URL you tried to load should stay on the address bar

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103720 ***

Comment 2

[Uri Dor]

this isn't really a duplicate, since it'll happen also when typing a URL, not
only on "open in new tab"

Comment 3

[Torben]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104778 ***

Comment 4

[Uri Dor]

not quite the same as 104778 either.

Comment 5

[Sébastien Delahaye]

It's really the same as bug 104778.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104778 ***