390319 - No "Server not found" error message; just a blank screen, when loading an URL that doesn't exist from third party program?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 388579

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007073105 Minefield/3.0a7pre ID:2007073105

1. New profile, start firefox
2. In your IRC client, write: www.df.hangame.com and hit enter
3. Click on the link you just wrote in IRC

Expected:
Page loads or an error page is displayed

Actual:
Page finishes loading, but is totally blank. It's the grey colour like an error message page but without the error message in the middle. If you do View > Page Source, I get the error ("Server not found. Firefox can't find the server at .")

If you copy & paste the url from IRC into the firefox location bar, the error page is shown as expected ("Server not found. Firefox can't find the server at www.df.hangame.com. <etc>")

This works on the branch (2.0.0.6)

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Attachment: screenshot of what i see

Comment 2

[V. Korn]

Confirm, this happens not only on orphan-link in IRC clents, also in IM clients (Pidgin) and on orphan-links typed in command line
Tested on WinXp sp2

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Works: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007071105 Minefield/3.0a7pre
Broken: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a7pre) Gecko/2007071205 Minefield/3.0a7pre

Checkins to module PhoenixTinderbox between 2007-07-11 04:00 and 2007-07-12 06:00

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=2007-07-11+04&maxdate=2007-07-12+06&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

Also note, once you have a tab with no error message in, it's basically dead. If you enter an URL in the location bar and hit enter, nothing happens.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This looks like a dup of bug 388579.

Comment 5

[Steve England [:stevee]]

OK. This bug has a different regression range to bug 388579 but I'll keep an eye on it and retest when 388579 lands.