111874 - Display new tab URL, old URLs consistently

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 104778

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[xyzzy]

Build 2001112003 Windows 98

1) Use Ctrl+T to open a new tab.
2) Select a different tab.
3) Select original tab.

Actual results:

First step shows URL bar with empty text field.  In the third step it is now
called about:blank.

Expected results:

The same display name should be used in either case.  Either Ctrl+T should pull
up a window with about:blank as text, or step 3 should give an empty field.

Alternately, Ctrl+T could bring up about:blank and make it selected, so that any
typing would overwrite it, allowing consistent naming and easy typing into the
new tab URL bar.

Comment 1

[Chris Brien]

The summary isn't very descriptive, but...

This is an artifact caused by bug 103720. about:blank is being loaded, but
doesn't show. The difference is that about:blank doesn't generate the event that
would fill the URL bar with the correct URL on loading. This isn't quite a
duplicate, but would be fixed when bug 103720 is fixed.

Comment 2

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

-> tabbed browser

Comment 3

[David Hyatt]

Reassigning to new component owner.

Comment 4

[jag (Peter Annema)]

-> future, helpwanted

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

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

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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