204335 - new tab w/ bad url should put the url in the go area instead of about:blank

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 103720

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Ted Drain]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

When I middle click on a bad url, a new tab is opened and I get the dialog
telling me that the site doesn't exist.  The new tab is created and the url bar
has about:blank in it instead of the bad url.  Sometimes this happens because of
a typo and sometimes it happens because a site is busy or down.  

It would be very helpful to have the url in the tool bar even though it's bad. 
That way I can hit reload to try again or correct a typo by hand if I can. 
Otherwise, the only way to figure out what the problem is to remember what you
clicked on to open the tab.  If you open several tabs at once, it's very
annoying to figure out where the link was that didn't work.

(ps: great program!)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page with a bad link
2. middle click on the link to open a new tab
Actual Results:  
- tab is opened properly
- an error dialog is shown
- the url in the toolbar contains about:blank

Expected Results:  
- put the bad url in the toolbar instead of about:blank

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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