1639526 - Initial page load keeps the location bar empty

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1347495

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P5)

Description

[Marius Gedminas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) snap Chromium/81.0.4044.138 Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. I click on a link for a page that only loads over a VPN, but I forgot to connect to the VPN.

2. I realize the page isn't loading and connect to the VPN.

Actual results:

Firefox takes a long time to time out the initial connection.

I try to speed this up by canceling the page load by clicking the X icon in the location bar (so it'll turn into a reload icon), the location bar becomes empty!

If I don't cancel but wait a long time, Firefox puts the URL of the failed load in the URL bar, and now I can hit reload.

Expected results:

The URL should appear in the location bar immediately, so I can cancel the load and hit reload whenever I want, without waiting for the initial load attempt to time out.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:adw, could you have a look please?

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