200853 - Opening link in new tab defaults to about:blank instead of Link URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 103720

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Louis Kruger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030405
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030405

Good behavior:  Right-click on a link.  Select "Open Link in New Window".  The
new window pops up with the URL filled in the address bar.

Bad havior:  Right-click on a link.  Select "Open Link in New Tab".  The tab
opens with a blank URL in the address bar.  The URL is not filled in until the
connection to the remote server is successfully made.  If there is a timeout
trying to connect, the address is left blank.

This is actually important to me, because I have a flaky net connection and
sometimes need to retry when my first attempt to connect to a server times out.
 Unfortunately, when I'm opening links in new tabs, as I tend to do a lot, there
is no easy way to retry loading the page in the new tab because the URL is never
filled in the address bar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Simulate a temporary network failure (unplug ethernet cable for example)
2.  Right click on a link and select "Open Link in New Tab"
3.  Notice there is no URL in the address bar.  If you switch to another tab and
come back, "about:blank" is filled in instead.  If the connection times out, the
URL is never filled in.
Actual Results:  
URL in address bar is blank.  Switching to another tab and back converts it to
"about:blank"

Expected Results:  
The URL I am visiting should be in the address bar.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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Comment 2

[Fused]

20030313 WinXP

I have also noticed this, it is quite annoying. I like to load up lots of tabs
at once fromt he same page, and if one of them fails for some reason, the URL si
not in the address bar so it makes me have to first of all remember what that
link was supposed to be, and then hunt through the originating page to find it
again.


* The URL should be placed in the address bar of the tab whether or not the page
load is successful.

Comment 3

[Chris Casciano]

dupe of bug 103720 "Open in new tab should prefill URL"

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