287114 - address bar does not reflect the url of page visited

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264610

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Description

[kthottam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

Try the following

1) configure your download setting to prompt for the place to save your download
2) Open a new instance of firefox 1.01 , go to a site where there are files that
can be downloaded .
3) The download dialog box will open , and prompt you to save to disk .
4) Select ok , and next a file dialog box will open up.
5) Now leave the above box open , next open a new instance ( not a clone) of
Firefox , then type in google.com.
6) do a search like firefox
7) click on link.
8) you will now be taken to the web site , but your address bar was not updated !!!


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try the following

1) configure your download setting to prompt for the place to save your download
2) Open a new instance of firefox 1.01 , go to a site where there are files that
can be downloaded .
3) The download dialog box will open , and prompt you to save to disk .
4) Select ok , and next a file dialog box will open up.
5) Now leave the above box open , next open a new instance ( not a clone) of
Firefox , then type in google.com.
6) do a search like firefox
7) click on link.
8) you will now be taken to the web site , but your address bar was not updated !!!
Actual Results:  
addressbar URL remained as GOOGLE.COM but the page was firefox's web page

Expected Results:  
the addressbar url should have been mozilla.org/products/firefox

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264610 ***