2010210 - After clicking a Bing search result, switching tabs before the page fully loads causes the original tab's state to be completely lost (becomes a blank page).

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open the Bing search engine (www.bing.com) in Firefox.

Perform any search (e.g., for "test").

On the search results page, click on any link to an external website.

While the new tab is still loading (the progress indicator is spinning or content is not fully rendered), immediately switch to another already open tab.

After waiting about 2-3 seconds, switch back to the tab that was opened from the Bing link.

Actual results:

Upon returning, the tab's address bar becomes completely blank.

The page content fails to load or displays as empty/blank.

Right-clicking on the page and selecting "View Page Source" shows view-source:about:blank.

Consequence: It is impossible to refresh or reload the intended webpage; the target page is completely lost, and the tab must be closed.

Expected results:

After switching back to the tab, the address bar should correctly display the full URL of the target webpage.

The page should continue loading normally or display any already loaded content.

Normal browser actions (like refresh/reload) should be available and functional.

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Search' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.