280961 - open in new tab of busy servers loses URL in address bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 231393

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Alec Lazarescu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; MyIE2; Maxthon; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 (ax)

This happens often when links and slashdotted or on fark and the servers they 
are on don't respond.  The link opens in a new tab and then you get an 
alert "The operation timed out while attempting to contact www.site.com".  The 
tab remains "(untitled)" and when you click on it there is no address in the 
bar so I cannot reload the page and forget the site of the link, especially 
when I have opened many links in a new tab successively.  As far as I 
remembered, this did not happen in older versions of Mozilla that I had tested.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to open many links in a row in a new tab quickly w/o waiting for them 
to load (easy to do on slashdot.org or fark.com)
2. Eventually one server will fail to respond and you'll get the alert


Actual Results:  
Go to the tab with the error contacting server error and notice missing address

Expected Results:  
The tab should have the address it tried and failed to load to make it easier 
to reload it

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

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