293182 - switching tabs while loading link loads link in wrong tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 758594

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[1nocentrabidlamb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3

If I click on a link, and immediately switch to a different tab, the link opens
in the tab to which I switched, instead of the tab in which I clicked the link.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open two tabs, and a website with links in at least one of them.
2. Click on a link in that tab.
3. Immediately switch to another tab, before the browser begins to display the
new page
4. Notice that the web page is opened in the improper tab

Actual Results:  
The web page is opened in the improper tab.

Expected Results:  
The web page should have been opened in the tab in which the link was selected.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you see this in an original mozilla.org build and without extensions ?
(use the safemode to disable all extension: close FF and run "firefox -safe-mode")

Comment 2

[1nocentrabidlamb]

Matti:
Yes, I did.  It needs to be clicked really fast, especially on a fast
connection.  Like for example, I did a google web search, then, I clicked on the
Images link and switched over to a new tab really fast.  It still did it in
safe-mode.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I hit this bug constantly on Linux.

Comment 6

[Andrew N Dowden]

Happens often in Ubuntu 10.x, 11.x (32bit), for Firefox 7.x or later.

Broader problem: If I open three or more tabs (eg. from Google search), the second new tab is a copy of the first.  This means the correct URL is lost, and I must go back and guess which one was lost.

Should this be raised as NEW issue?

Comment 7

[Casey Jones]

Hi guys, I have the same issue, but I reckon it's a different issue considering how much Firefox has changed in the last six or seven years. I propose you read and vote for the following, more-recently filed bug report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758594

Comment 9

[Andrew N Dowden]

This is NOT a duplicate of Bug 758594. That bug is unconfirmed, and has a different stated cause.

This bug is still present (even in FF19). As I noted (in Comment 6), this appears to have an underlying cause:


When opening two or more tabs/links from a page (eg. Google search results), the second new tab is lost (and is an exact copy of first). This appears to be an uninitialized variable / timing issue. This does NOT occur again (if steps repeated), until the browser is re-started OR a new browser window opened.

It does NOT appear to be related to FF load (or number of Add-Ons).