205931 - Address typed into addy bar lost when switching tabs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 104778

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Michel Meyers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030514 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030514 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

When typing something into the address bar and then switching tabs (switch to
some other Tab and back again), the typed text gets lost. This is pretty
annoying as sometimes I like to type in half URLs and switch pages to complete
them (ie get a reference code or sth that you need to add as parameter).

This could also be a 'problem' in Mozilla but I can't check that. (Don't have
Mozilla)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up multiple tabs
2. Type an URL into the address bar (Don't hit Enter)
3. Switch to a different tab
4. Switch back to the tab you had when you typed the URL
Actual Results:  
After switching back to the original tab, the address bar shows 'about:blank',
the typed text is lost.

Expected Results:  
Show the typed text (store it in an array and recover it when coming back)

Workaround: Before switching, copy/paste the text to somewhere else like
Notepad. (Could be regarded as feature request as well)

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

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

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.