287474 - Navigation stops working on secondary browser window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Chris F.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

- Open Firefox and go ANY web page with links (easy enough).
- Click on a link that spawns another browser window; you should now have 2
browser windows
- Close the original browser window, that is, the first window that spawned the
second window.
- Navigation is now disabled on the second window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See details...
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Navigation disabled on second (spawned) browser window.

Expected Results:  
Navigation enabled on second browser window even after closing first browser window.

Comment 1

[Chris F.]

Changed the title to be more descriptive; it's not just the buttons that stop
working, but nothing works on the secode browser window. For example, typing a
URL on the address window, pressing <CR> does not work either.

Comment 2

[Christophe Brock]

I have the same problem. When starting the browser from dreamweaver, the backbutton doesn't work for the second page  you visit(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6)
> Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6)
> Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
> 
> - Open Firefox and go ANY web page with links (easy enough).
> - Click on a link that spawns another browser window; you should now have 2
> browser windows
> - Close the original browser window, that is, the first window that spawned the
> second window.
> - Navigation is now disabled on the second window.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. See details...
> 2.
> 3.
> 
> Actual Results:  
> Navigation disabled on second (spawned) browser window.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Navigation enabled on second browser window even after closing first browser
> window.
> 

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!