122014 - Problem with new tab opening from typed url's in url bar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 103720

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Richard Ellis]

Mozilla 0.9.7 - build id 2001122108 - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221

When setting the user preference for opening a new tab upon manually entering a
url into the url bar, there is a minor UI issue with Mozilla if that url does
not respond.  The URL that was typed does not appear in the URL for that tab in
the case that the server is not found or does not respond.  The end result is
that the manually typed URL is lost, preventing a minor edit to correct a typo,
or a "reload" button hit to try again in the case that the server is just
horribly slow.

Repeat by:
1) set preferences to open new tab upon url entry into url bar.
2) type in a name that does not resolve to any valid server, eg. www.qazxsw.org.
3) wait a few seconds for Mozilla to respond with the "www.qazxsw.org could not
be found, please check the name and try again" dialog, click the "OK" button.
4) Notice that the new tab created has an empty URL bar.  There's nothing to
edit in order to "try again".

Mozilla's results are identical no matter the setting of the "load tabs in the
background" preference.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

dup of 103720 "Open in new tab should prefill URL"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103720 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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