473349 - Clicking a URL in history does not work the first time

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Dimitris Apostolou]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090110 Minefield/3.2a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090110 Minefield/3.2a1pre

URLs in history only work on second click and not the first time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox.
2. Visit several webpages.
3. Quit Firefox.
4. Launch Firefox.
5. Click a URL in history.
Actual Results:  
1. Firefox is launched.
2. Pages are rendered correctly and URLs are placed in history.
3. Firefox is quit.
4. Firefox is launched.
5. Nothing happens. Clicking for a second time works.

Expected Results:  
1. Firefox is launched.
2. Pages are rendered correctly and URLs are placed in history.
3. Firefox is quit.
4. Firefox is launched.
5. URL is called and webpage is displayed and rendered correctly.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

can you test this in safe mode please?
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 2

[Dimitris Apostolou]

Yes, it happens in safe mode as well.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Can you try in a new profile? This WFM in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090113 Minefield/3.2a1pre. Could be Mac only issue too.

Comment 4

[Dimitris Apostolou]

Same with fresh OS X user account.

Comment 5

[Dimitris Apostolou]

Bug still here with latest build.

Comment 6

[Dimitris Apostolou]

Still here with latest build.

Comment 7

[cmtalbert]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Still here with latest build.

Dimitris: it's infinitely more helpful if when you note that the problem still exists, you include the BuildID text from the about: page. (Just put about: in the URL bar).

Thanks!

Comment 8

[Dimitris Apostolou]

OK, I thought it automatically meant the latest build from the date I made the comment :)

Comment 9

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

I am not able to confirm this using the latest trunk nightly,  Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090212 Minefield/3.2a1pre. If I follow your STR correctly, you are clicking in the URL bar dropdown and selecting one of the entries with your mouse?

Comment 10

[Dimitris Apostolou]

No. I'm going to the history menu item and select any item in history.

Comment 11

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

I checked selecting a history menu item and it works for me the first time using the same build ID in Comment 9, so I am unable to reproduce the issue.

Comment 12

[Dimitris Apostolou]

Still here with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; 
rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090214 Minefield/3.2a1pre

Comment 13

[jonazisto]

I'm able to reproduce this problem with: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7

Comment 14

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090414 Shiretoko/3.5b4pre and the corresponding Win XP build.

reporter, please provide any information about your installation that you might believe to be different from the default.

Comment 15

[u88484]

Resolving as incomplete as the bug reporter has not commented after a suggestion was provided in comment #14.