204699 - when openning a new tab, automatically goes to home page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 197671

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Philip Pierce]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

In previous builds of Mozilla, openning a new tabbed browser would not load any
web pages, and would put the cursor in the address bar. This made it very easy
for a user to hit ctrl+t, then type the address desired.

However, in the latest build of Mozilla, press ctrl+t (or the new tabbed browser
button), causes a new tab to open, then the new tab loads the home page. 

It would be helpful and greatly appreciated if Mozilla reverted to the original
method of not loading and of putting the cursor in the address bar. The new
method is not efficient and causes much lost time, since after pressing ctrl+t,
I have go to my mouse, click stop, remove text in the address bar, and then
finally type my desired address.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Ctrl+T
2. Or press "Open In a New Tab" button

Actual Results:  
new tab automatically loads homepage instead of not loading anything and placing
cursor in address bar.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla needs to revert to the actions used in 1.3 and earlier, using the
methods described above.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

This has been fixed. 
Also see bug bug 201177 that introduces new preference for this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197671 ***