310537 - Redirection limit exceeded for this URL when not browsing the same tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256452

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Ali Baghani]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

After entering my email and password in gmail.google.com, it takes some time for
authentication. If I switch to another tab during this time, I will get the
message "Redirection limit exceeded for this URL". It looks as if mozilla is
trapped in a vicious cycle of redirections. I have to stay on the same tab until
the page is downloaded. Then there will be no problem.
P.S. Didn't have the same problem with 1.0.5 and 1.0.6. I think this is new in 1.0.7

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.type gmail.google.com in address bar
2.enter a valid user name and password
3.switch to another tab and wait for the message

Actual Results:  
The error message "redirection limit exceeded for this url" appeared

Expected Results:  
continued with downloading the page I requested

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050929
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005092922

WFM.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256452 ***