355528 - All pages load to leftmost tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 357922

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Michael Hallquist]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/2.0

When I attempt to use the tabbed browser using Firefox 2.0 RC1 on Win98, all pages load to the leftmost tab, rather than loading to the selected tab.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Navigate to a URL: http://www.google.com
2) Create a new tab: Ctrl+T
3) Click on the new tab.
4) Navigate to a different URL: http://www.infospace.com
5) The new URL will load in the leftmost tab, not in the selected tab.

Comment 1

[Michael Hallquist]

Update: This bug only occurs when upgrading from Firefox 1.5 to Firefox 2.0. Once I did a clean reinstall of firefox (including deleting the firefox directory), the tabs worked as expected.

Comment 2

[Brian C. Huffman]

I can *confirm* that this happens for more than one person and that it happens in Windows XP home.  Michael's solution of uninstalling and removing the firefox program directories and then re-installing works.  This is definitely a bug that needs to be fixed.  

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Too bad we didn't realize at the time that it only occurs by upgrading while Firefox is still running somewhere (like another user) that we can't close.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 357922 ***