280330 - When I first type a URL that is not found in a tab with a site open and refresh it refreshes the previous page instead of the url not found.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jurriaan Mous]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl-NL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041202 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl-NL; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041202 Firefox/1.0

When I visit any existing page and after that go to a URL that is not found
because for example my internet connection fails. And when I restore it and
refresh the page not found I get the previous page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit a random existing page
2. disconnect your internet
3. visit another existing page
4. Click away the url not found alert
5. reconnect your internet
6. Click refresh

Actual Results:  
It reloaded the first visited page

Expected Results:  
It should reload the other URL.

Comment 1

[Andrew Gillespie]

Not really a bug. You're just clicking the wrong button. Click the 'go' button
instead of 'refresh' or if you are not displaying the go button then hit
'return' key ('enter') on the url. The refresh button cannot reload the url
because it was never loaded in the first place.

Admittedly though Mozilla could make this more user friendly by renaming the
'ok' button to 'cancel' and adding a 'retry' button that should be equivalent to
'go'.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.

While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we
are asking for your help in focussing our efforts. If you can still reproduce
this problem in the latest version of the product (see below for how to obtain a
copy) or, for feature requests, if it's not present in the latest version and
you still believe we should implement it, please visit the URL of this bug
(given at the top of this mail) and add a comment to that effect, giving more
reproduction information if you have it.

If it is not a problem any longer, you need take no action. If this bug is not
changed in any way in the next two weeks, it will be automatically resolved.
Thank you for your help in this matter.

The latest beta releases can be obtained from:
Firefox:     http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.5beta1.html
Seamonkey:   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.