222383 - Page load error when browser.xul.error_pages.enabled set to true gives unusable url

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 157004

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Seth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

I love not having a popup message when I get a url wrong, but disabling the
popup message brings up another problem.  Whenever an address is typed in the
address bar that doesnt exist, such as: www.sitedontexist.com, Mozilla displays
its "address not found" error. Along with displaying this, it also changes the
address line to:
chrome://global/content/netError.xhtml?e=dnsNotFound&u=http%3A//www.sitedontexist.com/&d=www.
sitedontexist.com%20could%20not%20be%20found.%20Please%20check%20the%20name%20and%20
try%20again.

I would just like to suggest that the address bar should be left alone, but
still display the address not found message. This may not seem like a big deal,
but if you miss one letter while typing a URL, rather than just going back and
adding that letter, you would have to type the whole thing again.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to a site that doesnt exist
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Long URL of unneccesary information

Expected Results:  
Left the URL alone yet still displayed the message

Comment 1

[Bob Firth]

This is a bug, it is supposed to do what you're requesting.
Setting severity: minor

This WFM on Linux Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Comment 2

[Robert Mohr]

Dupe of bug 157004?

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157004 ***