135188 - about:blank should not appear in Location Bar when switching between new tabs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 104778

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Deleted User]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020312
BuildID:    All since 0.9.9

Everytime I open a new tab I get just a blank URL-Location bar but when I open
several tabs and then switch from one to another all the newly focused tabs show
the message "about:blank" in the location bar. This is first of no use, second
not informative (for what?), and third very disturbing when trying to quick
copy/paste an address the way X does:

You mark something, switch back to mozilla, want to paste it into the location
field by clicking third mouse button but there is already "about:blank" in the
location bar. You may paste your address behind "about:blank" and then delete
"about:blank" (very ugly solution) or you mark "about:blank" to delete it first
and loose the address to be pasted because X now remembers the last marked
"about:blank". 

There are other disturbing points but I think this is enough to understand why
this message is just boring and driving users into madness.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open several new tabs
2.switch between the new tabs
3.look at the URL bar

Actual Results:  You see "about:blank" in the URL bar

Expected Results:  You see a blank URL bar

This drives me mad!

Comment 1

[Dimitrios]

Confirming on Win2K, 2002040303. Marking as new.

Comment 2

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

bug 104778 bug 103720 bug 111874

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

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

VERIFIED DUPLICATE