242825 - open a second tab while first is still loading, and first tab will no longer show loading icon

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 209400

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sophia Poirier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040506 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040506 Firefox/0.8.0+

Open a new window, load a web page in it, and while it's still loading, open a
new tab.  The tab for the first window will show a regular icon, not a spinning
wheel "I'm still loading" icon, even though it still is loading.

I have my preferences set to "don't show tabs if only 1 tab is open", and I
think this is related, because I don't see this behavior if I have more than one
tab already open and then open more, only with the first tab then opening the
second.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open a new window.
2.  Enter an URL.
3.  Open a second tab while the first URL is still loading.
Actual Results:  
The icon on the first tab is a regular tab icon (favicon.ico or whatever).

Expected Results:  
The icon on the first tab should be a spinning progress wheel thingy until that
URL finishes loading.

Comment 1

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

This is a known problem.  It's not really a supercritical bug, however, so it'll
probably wait until after Firefox 1.0 unless someone makes a patch for it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 209400 ***