147874 - entering url in url bar does not change location

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90337

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[sean_kirkpatrick]

RC3: My browser defaults to an internal company website. If I select the text in
the URL field and enter a new URL (http://www.cnn.com, for example), the browser
fails to connect to the specified site and remains on the current site. If I use
the dropdown box and select some place that I've already been, the browser takes
me there just fine. This is different behavior than RC2.

Comment 1

[Scott Tadman]

I experienced this exact problem intermittently in RC1 and RC2. It is very
frustrating since you have to use CTRL+SHIFT+L to open the location dialog to
get anywhere. All open windows seem to suffer from it at the same time, or not
at all. It's hard to say why this occurs.

Comment 2

[Aaron Pieper]

Yeah, happens to me too. Always seems to happen the first time I first start up
my browser, then never again

Comment 3

[Ali Van Doren]

I have been running 1.0 on my G4 desktop, OS 9.2, since June and this only
happened to me occasionally, but it has become more frequent.  I often found
when I had trouble with it that there was a contextual menu that had popped up
behind my browser window, and after "releasing" it (usually by choosing View
Page Source because I couldn't get it to close on its own) the bar would start
working again. 
I have been using Netscape 6 on my Powerbook G3, OS 9.2, at home and just
started having the same problem (location bar not working) but there is no
contextual menu open in the background (visible at least.)  It started out
intermittent but has increased.  Just 2 days ago I downloaded Mozilla 1.0 to use
instead of Netscape 6 on my PB because it was getting to be a pretty frequent
problem.  Unfortunately Mozilla is exhibiting the same behavior -- I can't use
my location bar at all, even after rebooting Mozilla, and restarting my machine.
 It leads me to believe that there's some shared resource between the two that's
causing the problem...  I hope this helps.

Comment 4

[Michael Lefevre]

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