291196 - while loading, homepage url overwrites my url as i open the browser and type

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Bill]

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

When I open Firefox 1.0 and go to quickly type in a URL, it's overwritten with
whatever my homepage URL is as that homepage loads. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set homepage to www.google.com, close browser.
2. Open browser, start to type any other address in the URL bar.
3. Watch as you type and see whatever youve typed so far disappear and be
covered up with www.google.com.

Actual Results:  
The URL I'm typing is overwritten by my homepage URL of google.com

Expected Results:  
The browser should continue to load my homepage but when I click on the URL bar
to enter a different URL while the homepage is loading, it should let me
continue typing instead of: erasing everything ive typed so far, putting my
homepage URL back in the URL window AND removing my cursor from the URL window. 

This is frustrating.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to Core bug 188723?

Comment 2

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050602
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060214

Probably not related to core bug 188723

Setting severity to normal as this is not an enhancement.

Can't find any other related bugs.

However I am unable to reproduce.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[keith]

This issue occurs on Firefox 70.0.1 (64-bit), windows 10.
If you have the default homepage set, the default URL is appended to the address bar after a few seconds while the page is loading.
There is just enough time to point and click another link on the favourites list, but it soon becomes frustrating having to wait on every run before typing a new address manually.

Proposed solution:

1. On Firefox start, read the address field in before updating the default ULR address, and
2. If the address field contains any manually entered text at this time, do not append the default homepage URL onto the edit field.
3. Optionally:

• change the URL color to indicate content mismatch
• wait until a timeout and then reset.