location bar should contain url being resolved, even when not yet fetched
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(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)
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(Reporter: ray, Unassigned)
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This may be a bit subtle, but it seems obvious. There are times when a window is opened and the page attempts to connect to a url and the url is not yet visible in the location bar. I am not sure how to specify when this occurs, right now. But I have seen it many times.
Then, at times, the page cannot be fetched. At this point, the url I was trying to connect to is not visible in the location bar. If it was able to connect, then the location would have gone in. But now I cannot connect, and I am not even necessarily sure of that url I was trying to connect it. I do not see it now. I may know what I thought it was, but am I right?
If a page or tab is opened and the page attempts to connect to a url, why would the url go into the location bar first? I suggest that this would make the most sense and is not what is happening now.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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There are security reason to not do that. Suppose we immediately put the URL in the field, the currently loaded page could then use onunload or other tricks to delay or even cancel loading the new URL, then replace content to look like the destination url, for example. Then you could think you're on a safe page, and enter personal data in it.
There's ways to improve the situation, but we should keep security into account.
This is basically bug 1110297, so just duping there.
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