341351 - Page and URL blanked out after finishing display

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Victor Engmark]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

When loading the URL above, the page is shown just an instant, before the whole tab is "reset" to a status like a new tab: No URL, tab title "(Untitled)", and a blank page. The only thing which is not reset is the history of the tab.

I've tried to clear the cache, but the page still shows up before the tab is "reset". I've also tried closing the tab and opening the page in a new tab, opening the page in a new window instead of a tab, and restarting Firefox before opening the page. None of these worked.

Prior to the error, the browser had been running for about 18 hours.

The page worked fine yesterday, when it was heavily used.

Reproducible: Always




In the JavaScript Console I get the following message every time a tab is reset:
Error: [Exception... "'Component does not have requested interface' when calling method: [nsIInterfaceRequestor::getInterface]"  nsresult: "0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]

Comment 1

[Victor Engmark]

Attachment: The page in question, as saved with "Save Link As..."

Comment 2

[Victor Engmark]

(In reply to comment #1)
Opening the file locally resulted in the same bug.

Comment 3

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

This is actually the intended behaviour for that page: if you look at the HTML of the page, it contains the line "<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=about:blank">". This tells the browser to go to about:blank (the blank page you were seeing) 0 seconds after the page has loaded.