1022888 - If seeking is cancelled and new url entered, the browser will redirect to the previously entered url when the page loads.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 998606

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140506152807

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enter a faulty URL to the address bar (e.g. www.bugzilla.oeg).
2. Cancel loading the page.
3. Enter a valid URL to the address bar (e.g. www.bugzilla.org).
4. Wait for the page to load and observe the browser suddenly load the previously inputted URL.


Actual results:

Browser displays an error message "Server not found" for the faulty URL after the correct web page has loaded.


Expected results:

Browser should have disregarded the previously entered URL and only loaded the URL that was inputted last.

Comment 1

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Couldn't reproduce, the valid URL is loading properly.
FF 29.0.1, win 7 x64.

Please check if the issue occurs using Firefox in safe mode (with your addons disabled):
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

And on a new, empty profile:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager