After searching, URL bar doesn't show URL if the tab loads in background
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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(Reporter: quasicomputational, Unassigned)
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Reproduction instructions:
- In about:preferences#search, assign the keyword 'w' to Wikipedia.
- Open two tabs.
- In the second tab, focus the URL bar and type 'w Example'
- Hit Enter to send the search to Wikipedia.
- Immediately press Ctrl-PgUp to switch to the first tab.
- Wait for a few seconds, until the second tab is completely loaded.
- Switch back to the second tab.
Observed behaviour: The URL bar does not show the URL of the page. Instead, it has the Wikipedia search selected and an empty search term.
Expected behaviour: The URL bar would show the URL of the page.
The expected behaviour is seen if, instead of switching away in step (5), I stay on the tab, or I don't wait long enough in step (6).
This does not happen with Google - I observe the blank search for a moment, but then it turns into the expected URL. Maybe this is something to do with Wikipedia redirecting to the article?
I'm not sure if this is new in 83, though I think it might be. It's certainly newly annoying in 83 because now focusing the URL bar and typing doesn't have the effect of clearing any stray search keywords - previously, the entire contents of the URL bar, including the keyword, would be selected and I could just type to over-write it, but now the search keyword is GUIified and it has to be explicitly cleared.
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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What Firefox version are you using? I think this is a duplicate of bug 1675926, which is fixed in Nightly and 84 beta 5.
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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I'm seeing this on 83, but I did just check Nightly and I can't reproduce it there, so it does seem to be a duplicate of that issue. Thanks for turning that up, and I guess there's nothing else to be done except wait for 84.
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