292864 - Links from external programs open tab but do not load page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Christopher Vendemio]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050504 Firefox/1.0+  (bangbang023)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050504 Firefox/1.0+  (bangbang023)

Upon clicking a link from any external app (including Thunderbird), a new tab
opens in Firefox, but the URL does not populate the location bar and the page
does not load. 

Note: This is using Firefox's own built in tab handling options, not an extension. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click link from any external application
Actual Results:  
New tab opens, but page does not load and URL does not appear in location bar.

Expected Results:  
A new tab should be opened and the page should load.

Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

CONFIRMED
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050504
Firefox/1.0+

MSN 7 links open the new tab, go nowhere.  i clicked the link a few times and
saw that the site was 'loading' but not going anywhere, so i manually typed it
in (actually just clicked a bookmark) and it loaded fast and fine.  This is a
real bad one.  Adding keyword regression, CCing myself.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050504
Firefox/1.0+ 10:02 build

-> WFM

try a later nightly, during release bug 281988 wasn't backed out yet

Comment 3

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

Fixed in the followup to bug 281988.

Comment 4

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050504
Firefox/1.0+

WFM now, verifying fixed