118496 - typing a url in location bar doesn't take me to the web page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90337

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[srikanth Koneru]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7+)
Gecko/20020106
BuildID:    2002010608

Typing a url like www.directv.com in the location bar doesn't take me to the new
web page. It just reloads the web page already in the navigator window. This
happens only some times. If i kill mozilla and restart then this bug doesn't
happen. Looks like a race condition during startup. Is there a way to get all
statistics(into a file) and attach it to the bug report. I will keep this window
open till i need to reboot my windows machine(which averages 2 times in 3 days
normally)

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.just start mozilla 
2.Type a url of your choice.
3.

Actual Results:  Mozilla reloads the page already loaded(in my case the reloaded
page is my home web page)

Expected Results:  Mozilla should have loaded the web page corrsponding to the
url entered in the location bar

I am assigning this a normal priority because it is very hard to reproduce.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

are you using a proxy? If so, please consult the release notes.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

urlbar

Comment 3

[srikanth Koneru]

I am NOT using a proxy. I have a DSL. I could reproduce this bug once, after
many many tries.

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

Are you using tabbed browsing?

Comment 5

[srikanth Koneru]

I WAS using tabbed browsing when this bug happened, But this bug happened before
i could open any additional tabs(i did press ctrl + t, but the additional tab
has not opened when this happened, i had to press ctrl + t again for a tab to open).

Comment 6

[Sam Barnum]

I'm on a mac and the same thing is happening.  Didn't notice it until 0.9.8.  
I type a location and hit return, and NOTHING HAPPENS.  I have to submit 
this on IE.

Comment 7

[Griesmayer Andreas]

I use Linux an can confirm this bug. There is no way to load an adress using the
URL-bar (neither pressing enter nor using the "go"-button). 
i use Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 but
recognized this problem also in 0.9.7 (so i switched to galeon).

mozilla works fine if i create a new profile - the problem occures only with my
old configfiles (i update mozilla since about 0.9.1)

bookmarks and links work fine, if i type sonething in the url-bar, the symbol on
the left switches to an light gray "bookmark-symbol"

also, the "default search engine"-list is empty

Comment 8

[Griesmayer Andreas]

i found out, that the file "localstore.rdf" seems to be corrupted ("binary
file") - i replaced it with a file from a new profile.

now, url-bar and search-engine list work fine 

Comment 9

[Corey Jewett]

On my latest mozilla upgrade (using RedCarpet and Ximian RPMs) I experienced the
same problem as Griesmayer Andreas. Current ver: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux
i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020212. Initially when I upgraded mozilla
wouldn't load because of some chrome problem. I grepped and deleted the
offending lines out of XML config files. (Of course I didn't make backups. ;) I 
can no longer type in an URL in the Location bar and hit enter, mozilla doesn't 
try to load the page. Two workarounds:) File->Open Web Location and type in the 
URL and then middle-click paste into the content pane. I haven't tried creating 
a new profile yet.

Overwriting localstore.rdf in my profile with 
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/profile/localstore.rdf seemed to solve the problem 
along with quite a few other UI quirks and bugs I'd been observing. (including 
sidebar settings being unsaved, window sizing problems, etc.)

Comment 10

[Corey Jewett]

Apologies for the second post, but thought I'd mention I also have a back-up of
my defective localstore.rdf if somebody needs it.

Comment 11

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90337 ***