257043 - switching to another tab during early page load shows old url in address bar when tab is reactivated

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Michael Melanson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8

When loading a page that takes a long time to resolve/connect to the host, the
address bar reverts to the old url when the user switches to another tab and back.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open more than one tab
2. Load a page A in one tab (for reference)
2. Load a page B in the same tab that takes a while to resolve/connect --
possibly a dead site?
3. Switch to another tab
4. Switch back to the first tab

Actual Results:  
The URL for site A is shown in the address bar

Expected Results:  
The URL for site B should be shown in the address bar

Comment 1

[nulldomain]

WFM 

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Michael Melanson]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM 
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0+

Yes, it appears to have been resolved somewhere along the line.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Michael Melanson]

Sorry, I'd forgotten this bug. Somewhere along the line, it was resolved.

Thanks to whoever resolved it, but chances are it was the symptom of another bug
that was resolved some time ago.

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan]

We don't know what fixed this worksforme