156406 - Tabbed browsing - tab loses association with its URL

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 103720

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[manojd]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

This problem is normally seen on slow connections - I see it often on my home PC
- where I use dial up connection. Typical throughput is 3-5K/sec.

I open many tabs simultaneously - i.e., while some tabs are still being loaded,
I open more URLs in additional tabs. 6-8 is kind of typical number of tabs
simultaneously being opened.

Some of the tabs have time outs - but I can not go there & reload the page -
they have lost association with their URL. Their URL box shows (I think)
"about:blank".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See description above.
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Expected Results:  Expect a tab to preserve its association with the URL, even
if tab could not be opened because of network conditions. I should be able to
reload loater.

Comment 1

[manojd]

Forgot mentioning this. I have seen IE doing smart work here - I don't often see
IE windows timing out even when I open many simultaneously (though it sometimes
happens with IE too).

From external behavior, it looks like IE doesn't send more that 2 requests
simultaneously to same server - even if I had asked for more things from same
server. Other pages will open - but 2 at a time. Mozilla doesn't seem to limit this.

I guess the number 2 comes from HTTP/1.1 specs doc. Though there are situations
where using a number higher than 2 helps me without making me use server
resources irresponsibly - e.g., when it's night in both US & Europe but day in
India, many major servers are less lightly loaded & I have seen my Getright
deliver total throughput that is more that twice its normal. Perhaps leaving
this number configurable but with default of 2 should do the trick.

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

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

Comment 3

[Paul Wyskoczka]

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