308593 - adress bar empty when server not reached.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[germ lechap]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050723 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050723 Firefox/1.0.5

here is the thing that bother me since the early versions of firefox.

When you open an url in a new windows or a new tab, and the server is
unreacheable, the timeout generate an error message, but then the adress bar is
left in blank..

practicaly, that means that if your connection crack down between the time you
loaded the page and the time you decided you would click on other link you have
no way to know which page you wanted to open.

I know it sounds silly but it is very very very anoying.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load a page
2. unconnect
3. click on plenty of link on the page.
4. do other stuff in the meanwhile thinking your connection just lag a little bit.
5. enjoy plenty of blank windows that should be filled with interessant link you
ll have to look for again.

Actual Results:  
plenty of blank windows that should be filled with interessant link you ll have
to look for again.


Expected Results:  
plenty of blank windows that should be filled with interessant link you would
just have to click the "reload" button in to retreive your page once your
connection is back.

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

This issue has been taken care of in the latest Firefox version.