1479905 - Strange client UI bug

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1401091

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[George]

Mozilla,

I recently noticed very strange behavior with navigation in Firefox. When navigating to a webpage that has no title via new tab, it uses the previous tab's rather than the new location.

Demo:
1. Visit https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Ayoxall.me.uk&oq=site%3Ayoxall.me.uk&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.2875j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
2. One of the entries is "Click here to go back. NOT_FOUND", this webpage doesn't have a <title>.
3. If you click the link normally it updates the title of that tab to "yoxall.me.uk/page/2". Go back and try open the same link in a new tab via right click.
4. Notice how the title oddly remains "google.co.uk/url?...", but you're actually on the same yoxall.me.uk webpage? This will remain even after refresh, until you navigate to another page.

See example: https://i.imgur.com/fEm3vJb.gif

I tried this on both Windows & Linux, and can reproduce on both. Chrome doesn't seem to have the same issue.

Not sure why the behaviors are different, but this could possibly be abused for phishing

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Dão, is this a dupe of bug 1401091?