143281 - After connection failed, url should remain in location bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 103720

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Winnie]

Build ID: 2002050108

Reproducibility: Always

When opening a page in new window/tab, but connection fails, Mozilla alerts me,
then the title becomes (Untitled) with no address in location bar or title bar,
as if it were a new window.

In NN 4.x, I could sometimes reconnect to that server by looking at its location
on the title bar.

But Mozilla just alerts me. In case I closed the page that has a link to that
location, and didn't bookmark it, I would have to look for it again.

I suggest leaving the URL of the page (that Mozilla failed to connect to) in the
location bar, enabling the user to retry connecting.

Comment 1

[Bill McGonigle (not currently reading bugmail; please contact directly)]

Confirming on linux and OSX.  Changing:
Platform: All, was PC
OS: All, was Win98
Component: URL Bar, was XP Apps

Note: this is especially frustrating if I happen to have just walked out of
802.11 range, and get a failed connection.  I should be able to walk back into
range and hit reload.  Instead I have a blank tab.

The XUL error pages might be a good-enough work around, or even a better solution.

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

-> default owner

Comment 3

[Winnie]

Noticed a typo. "lacation bar" should be "location bar".

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

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