316331 - Clicking on page in address bar history will refresh current page if not finished loading

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Robert Young]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

While a page is in the process of loading, if you click the dropdown on the address bar and click on a page (only on the right "title" side, not on the address side) then the currently loading page will refresh instead of the new page being displayed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a page loading, but not completely finished (the animated loading icon is still moving)
2. Click on a entry in the address bar dropdown.  The entry must be clicked on the right side, not the left.

Actual Results:  
The currently loading page will refresh.

Expected Results:  
The entry clicked on in the address bar should start loading.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051113 Firefox/1.6a1

Works for me. Can you reproduce in safe mode? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode

Comment 2

[Robert Young]

I can do the following to reproduce the bug:

1. Open firefox in safe mode.
2. Press Ctrl-Shift-Delete to clear all saved information.
3. Type 'www.wikipedia.org' into the address bar and press enter.
4. Type 'www.cnn.com' into the address bar and press enter.

At this point, I cannot reproduce the bug by going to and from the two entries in the address bar history.  But, if I

5. Type 'www.globeandmail.com' into the address bar and press enter.

Now, if I choose 'http://www.cnn.com' from the dropdown, and then choose 'http://www.wikipedia.org' from the dropdown before CNN.com has finished loading, then CNN.com will be refreshed, instead of Wikipedia being loaded.  Using these steps it seems like I can reproduce it every time.

Robert Young

Comment 3

[mike]

I am seeing this bug (or something very similar) quite often when clicking on the right side of the location bar (where the title of the page is located). This happens even if the page is finished loading. It seems to happen more often if you click further to the right, if you click on an area where there is no text, and for trying to access www.sfgate.com from some reason.

It doesn't seem to follow a distinct pattern beyond that. I've disabled all my extensions and the problem still persists. Seeing this on my work PC and at home (both XP SP 2).

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I can reproduce this with the testcase of comment #2, but only in branch builds.
In trunk this is repaired between 1.9a1_2005091822 and 1.9a1_2005091910 although I can't find a reasonable cause.

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=PhoenixTinderbox&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=2005-09-18+21%3A00%3A00&maxdate=2005-09-19+10%3A00%3A00&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

*** Bug 321618 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

*** Bug 322481 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

*** Bug 319432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[jo.walt]

I concur with what has been said in comment #3, this bug happens even when the page has finished loading and SEEMS random. However it do indeed happen only when clicking on the right side of the dropdown list.

I'v seen this bug on Windows XP (SP1a & SP2) as well as on MacOS X (10.4.3 & 10.4.4), so it's probably not a platform related bug.

Comment 9

[jo.walt]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I concur with what has been said in comment #3, this bug happens even when the
> page has finished loading and SEEMS random. However it do indeed happen only
> when clicking on the right side of the dropdown list.
> 
> I'v seen this bug on Windows XP (SP1a & SP2) as well as on MacOS X (10.4.3 &
> 10.4.4), so it's probably not a platform related bug.
> 

Regarding what I've said above, the bug also occurs when clicking on the left side of the dropdown list (where the url is displayed).

Comment 10

[Nick]

Are you sure it has anything to do with sides? And does it seem to usually only occur when the dropdown item is the first item in the list? If so, then I've confirmed a bug that has this effect. It seems that there seems to be a small area at the top of the drop down box where a mouse-over will select that item, but the mouse click bypasses the "paste from drop-down box to address bar" step and just executes the "load page in address box" function. (Note, I'm not familiar with the source, so I don't know how the code is actually structured.)

This behavior has the following result: In a tab with an open page, clicking in that location will reload the current page, since that is the URL in the box. Also, when typing something in the box for drop-down suggestions, when you try to click the first suggestion in the particular location, it will attempt to load the incompleted text in the bar, usually resulting in an I'm Feeling Lucky search for "goo", for instance.

To find this spot, open the drop-down box and bring your mouse down slowly, until the first item gets *just* barely selected, then click. Any lower. and it will behave as normal.

Comment 11

[Aaron Racine]

Reporter, per comment #4, can you confirm whether this has been fixed for you in the latest release of Firefox?

Comment 12

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

I can't reproduce using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070701 Minefield/3.0a6pre ID:2007070104. Closing as WFM.

Reporter, if you're still seeing this, please comment with details and reopen.