199997 - Open link in new tab loses location if stopped or unresolved... (usability issue)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 103720

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Pat Niemeyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

When opening a location in a new tab the location is not placed into the new
tab's address bar until the page is loaded successfully.  This means that if the
site is hung and you stop it (perhaps intending to hit retry) or it never
resolves, you lose your location.  This is very annoying when you open a number
of links in the background and only discover much later that some never loaded.

The problem can be easily reproduced.  Type a non-existent local address (e.g
something like 192.168.1.234) into the address bar and hit Control-Enter with
the optino "Ctrl-click/enter opens links in the background" set in the tabs
preferences.  Go to the tab and while it's spinning hit the stop button.  The
page load is cancelled and there is no evidence of where you were going - the
address has been lost.  

This loss of information can be very annoying under some circumstances.

Thanks for listening to my whining!

Pat Niemeyer
Author of Learning Java, O'Reilly & Associates.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Preferences -> Tabbed browsing -> "Open tabs instead of windows for" /
"Control-Enter in the location bar".
2. Type a non-existent local address (e.g something like 192.168.1.234) into the
address bar and hit Control-Enter 
3. Go to the tab and while it's spinning and hit the stop button.  

The page load is cancelled and there is no evidence of where you were going -
the address has been lost.  

Actual Results:  
The page load is cancelled and there is no evidence of where you were going -
the address has been lost.  An empty page with empty address bar is displayed.

Expected Results:  
I believe it should display the attempted location in the address bar so that
one could try the page load again, or modify the URL and try again.  As it
stands, one loses the location and has to recover it by other means (perhaps a
page long ago closed).

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

closely related (dupe ?) to bug 104778 and bug 112337.
Pat, can you have a look at them ? I'm sure this behaviour has been filed before.

Comment 2

[Pratik]

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

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104778 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104778 ***

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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