117100 - Value of URL field [before entering] gets erased when switching tabs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 104778

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Steve Wardell]

Build 2001122603 on W2K.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Load URL in a window
2) Press Ctrk-T for new tab
3) Enter something in URL field of new tab, but do not submit to load that 
address
4) Switch to different tab
5) Switch back to the new tab you created and the location field will not have 
the text you typed, but just the last URL loaded.

This is not good. Example, I was trying to copy a URL from another tab window 
that was multiline and I had to copy as 2 separate copy and pastes. So I copy 
the first, but when I try to copy the 2nd, the 1st part is gone. The value of 
the location field should be preserved between tab switches.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

jag, didn't you fix this?

Comment 2

[Steve Wardell]

Thinking of Bug 109650?

Comment 3

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Nope, I didn't fix this. The issue here is that we need to store the contents of
the urlbar somewhere on the tab we switch away from, and restore it from the tab
we switch to.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

confirming. when i switch back to the other tab in which i had typed [but not
yet hit Enter] in the urlbar, the urlbar now says "about:blank".

Comment 5

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Another case of this... If I have a URL in one tab, say:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0896085015/103-7821995-1091062

And I backspace back to the ASIN/ part, so I can paste in a differant ISBN
number...if I switch to another tab to get that ISBN number and come back,
"0896085015/103-7821995-1091062" has reappeared. Now I can't use my mouse to
delete it, or I'll erase the ISBN number I just copied to the clipboard.

Veeeeeeeerrrrrry annoying.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

same problem as in bug 104778

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

why, so it is... :)

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

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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