239245 - Should use the real tab's URL instead of about:blank so that user can refresh or reload.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 231393

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Satidchoke Phosaard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040216 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040216 Firefox/0.8.0+

When try to open a new tab or window by a hyperlink, if the page cannot be
reached or there is any error, the URL in the new tab/windows will be
"about:blank".  It should be the url of the hyperlink so that user can just use
"Go" to reload it.

Frequently that happens and user forgot which page they were trying to see.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow a deadlink that can produce about:blank in the new window/tab
2. The URL will be about:blank instead of the hyperlink URL.
3. Cannot use refresh.  Forget already which page to open.

Actual Results:  
1. Follow a deadlink that can produce about:blank in the new window/tab
2. The URL will be about:blank instead of the hyperlink URL.

Expected Results:  
The URL should be the one that try to open.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Firefox issue.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231393 ***