280455 - Opening document in new window does not fill address bar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 254714

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Silva]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Go to any website. Now click on a link and open it on a new window or tab. The
new window or tab does not have the address you wanted to open -until- the
connection has been established and the file (or address) is starting to download.

The problem here is that if Mozilla cannot locate the server, the address will
remain blank instead of displaying the address, as it should be. Having the
address on the location bar would be useful for say, attempting to refresh the
location so you don't have to click on the address again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on a link and choose "Open in New Window/Tab". Alternatively,
click on a link that opens a new window automatically.

Actual Results:  
The address bar remained blank.

Expected Results:  
The address bar should have the location I tried to open.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

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

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

I don't think this is a duplicate... there's no mention of an error in this bug.
the bug description sounds more like alerts are in use, because with an error
page, the chrome:// url would be shown rather than no url.

reopening.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Well, a duplicate, just not of that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254714 ***

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I knew I'd seen it somewhere :).