246903 - no url in addressbar when url gives timeout when opened in tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 231393

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Bramus!]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

When ctrl-clicking a link (or selecting "Open in new tab") it does so.

FireFox doesn't place the URL of that tab in the address bar until it gets a
reply from the server. 
Now, when that links gives for example a server-timeout or an "address not
found"-error you can't impssibly see what url gave that error (only from the
warning box). 
But if you have like 5 tabs open and 5 errors are returned, or when you have a
complex URL you can't possibly remeber that/those url(s).
If you want to retry to connect to that page by pressing the reload button, you
simply can't because there's no URL in the address bar.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a page that links to a non-existing webaddress (for example make your
own page that links to http://sfqsmjkfjzabedsojbf.com, which does not exist) or
to a server that gives a timeout.
2. Open that link in a new tab
3. You will get an error that the address is not found
4. When going to that tab you'll see that the address-bar is EMPTY
5. thus you can't reload the page NOR can you remove an eventual typo from the url

Actual Results:  
the address-bar is empty

Expected Results:  
the address-bar shouldn't be empty but contain the url which was not found or
gave a timeout

Comment 1

[Gemma L.C. Anible]

Dupe of Bug 231393?

Comment 2

[Bramus!]

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