354981 - Links from external applications do not appear in location bar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 88567

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Jos Vermeulen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

When loading links from an external application, Firefox only shows the URL after the page has loaded.

On a slow connection, it's very noticable (especially since Firefox has the urge to just stop loading the page, and you have to refresh, but you can't when there's no link.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start an application that has links (eg. Thunderbird)
2. Click a link
Actual Results:  
3. See Firefox load the link, but not make the URL appear in the location bar
4. After the page loaded, the URL appears

Expected Results:  
3. See Firefox load the link, and see the URL while loading

Comment 1

[Aaron Racine]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/2007051502 Firefox/2.0.0.4

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/2007060204 Minefield/3.0a6pre

I was unable to reproduce this as long as the browser established a TCP session to the remove server.  That is, once a connection was established to the web server, the URL from the external program showed up in the Location Bar, even when the browser hadn't yet rendered the page. 

I can reproduce this if the link from step 2 doesn't result in a successful TCP connection.

I created a link to http://10.0.0.2/ in an IM window and clicked on it.  The Location Bar in the new Fx tab remained empty until after the "connection timeout" page was displayed.  I know of no way to make Firefox exercise its reported "urge to just stop loading the page," however, so I can't confirm what the Location Bar would look like in such an event.

Another way to reproduce this sort of behavior (though, I don't know if it's a result of the same root cause as the reported behavior above):

1. Attempt to browse an unreachable host (e.g. http://10.0.0.2/)
2. Wait for the timeout page to be displayed
3. Create a shortcut to that page by dragging the icon in the Location Bar to the desktop
4. Open a new Fx tab
5. Drag the shortcut from the desktop to the new Fx tab
6. Note that the Location Bar remains empty until the timeout page is displayed

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup