Home page URL may be appended to the URL bar if I'm start typing immediately
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: fluffy, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:69.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/69.0
Steps to reproduce:
- Press Cmd-N to open a new browser window
- Press Cmd-L and start typing an address immediately
Actual results:
My default start page address sometimes gets appended to the URL I was typing after the window finishes loading fully.
(This only happens on occasion and only if I haven't opened a window in a while, so I suspect there's some caching-related timing differences.)
Expected results:
Since I'd already started typing a URL, the default start page address shouldn't get appended.
This issue also happens with a clean profile? https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles. Or this behavior from an extension?
I just verified it on a clean profile, where the only change I did was to set a new homepage. It doesn't happen with the Firefox Home page, just a custom start URL.
The start URL in question is just a very simple page of links (https://news.beesbuzz.biz/comicry.php) which doesn't take much time to load, in case that's a possible factor.
It seems to be easiest to reproduce if I have closed all browser windows without quitting Firefox (on macOS) and then wait a couple minutes before opening a new window.
I see if you press Ctrl+L immediately, and later connected to the server, which homepage url may have been appended to the url bar, the caret at the beginning. Earlier or later, it may not be inserted (keep you input), or the homepage url be filled and selected from Ctrl+L.
multi-threaded competition?
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Comment 5•5 years ago
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We may have to set some state to remember that we are in the process of selecting, so if the value changes it also gets selected...
It is annoying, but still not very common, may be tricky to test for.
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Updated•4 years ago
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