337695 - Manually Edited URL Preempted by History Drop Down

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 327101

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Peter K Chan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

If the URL is selected using the location bar drop down and is edited before the last slash (/), the original URL, instead of the edited one, is used when enter is pressed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press down arrow to activate location bar drop down.
2. Select an URL with multiple slashes (e.g. http://www.example.com/original/123).
3. Before activating the URL, use the mouse or keyboard to edit some part of the URL (e.g. change to http://www.example.com/changed/123).
4. Press enter.

Actual Results:  
Browser navigated to http://www.example.com/original/123.

Expected Results:  
Browser navigates to http://www.example.com/changed/123.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

As far as I know Firefox goes straightaway to the selected url after selecting it in the dropdown without even the possibility of editing it first.
So this is normal behaviour.
Please retest in Firefox's safe-mode or with a new profile.
This to rule out extension influences.
Please reopen if you can give more detailed steps to reproduce this in a Firefox with a new profile.

Comment 2

[Peter K Chan]

The bug is reproducible in safe mode. However, I just realized that the actual steps need to reproduce it is much more obscure:

1. Begin typing a pre-existing URL in location bar.
2. As the history drops down, use down arrow to select a URL.
3. The new URL (http://example.com/original/123) is now visible in location bar, and the drop down is still visible.
4. Use CONTROL-LEFT-ARROW to navigate the URL component by word boundary.
5. Change the URL (http://example.com/changed/123). Note that the history drop down is still visible at this point.
6. Press enter.
7. Firefox navigates to original URL (http://example.com/original/123).

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

With ctrl+left arrow I can only place the cursor one word to the left.
A more handy way to change the url seems to be wiped out with the back button.
Then there is no problem navigating to the edited url.

Comment 4

[Peter K Chan]

> With ctrl+left arrow I can only place the cursor one word to the left.

You can get to more words to the left by continue to press the control-left arrow keys.

> A more handy way to change the url seems to be wiped out with the back button.

Do you mean backspace or the back button? If you mean backspace - I agree.

I have verified that this bug does not occur with 1.0.7, so it seems to represent a regression bug. Specifically, in 1.0.7, the history drop down goes away as soon as you edit the URL. The problem with 1.5.0.3 seems to be that the lingering of the history drop down, as you are editing the URL inline, which afterward causes the browser to go to the original/wrong URL. (At least, this is a guess without looking at the source code).

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Yes, it regressed somewhere around August 2004.
There is still the possibily that this is a dupe, but I have no time at the moment to find it out.

Comment 6

[Peter K Chan]

I am probably one of five people on the planet to encounter this bug. :)

Degraded severity to trivial.

Comment 7

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Regression between 2004071817 and 2004072011.

Comment 8

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

Regression from bug 251513, then. I'd say this is a dupe of bug 327101.

Comment 9

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 327101 ***