224658 - new window+bad URL doesn't display URL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 157004

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Max Waterman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031029
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031029

At page <http://www.egroupware.org/>, clicking on the link 'download' opens a
new window pointing to
<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78745>.

Under normal circumstance, this would work fine. However, at my location (behind
the great firewall of china), the target website <http://sourceforge.net/> is
inaccessible (don't know exactly why), so the attempt to access it eventually
times out with a 'The operation times out when attempting to contact
sourceforge.net.' message.

This behaviour is fine, however, sometimes the problem is very temporary (not
with this web site), and simply clicking 'reload' will work. The problem is that
the window that was opened has no URL in the location bar, so there is nothing
to reload.

Note that, if I 'right click/open new window or tab' (or cmd-click) on the link,
the resulting window/tab does indeed have a URL in the location bar, so that
works fine. It is only when you simply click on it that the resulting window has
no URL. I am guessing this is due to the 'target' attribute to the 'a' tag.

I am guessing that this is only really a problem when the attempt fails due to a
DNS timeout, which often happens here but an immediate second attempt succeeds.

Please consider making the new window have the target URL in the location bar
immediately the window is open.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open http://sourceforge.net/
2.click on 'download'
Actual Results:  
when sourceforge.net is not available, the attempt times out and results in a
window with no URL.

Expected Results:  
window with URL in locatino bar.

I have created a test page which has an intentional bad link :

http://reality.sgiweb.org/maxw/tmp/test.html

Selecting 'Open link in new window' results in a window with a URL, but just
clicking results in a window with no URL.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

used to be bug 159537, resolved as dup of bug 104778, verified fixed on 2003.06.17
Newer versions of this bug seem to land as dups in bug 157004 - duping accordingly

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