406850 - Location bar text sticks in new tab, switched tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Ray Kiddy]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

I believe this started about a month ago. I am surprised I do not see any bugs in the system about it. I saw it on at least 2.0.0.10 and I still see it on 2.0.0.11.

Say that I have a window and the URL in the location bar is "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox". I can create a new tab and I get the blank tab content, but the URL still says the same in the location bar. I think that the location bar should be empty. I can switch between existing tabs by licking on the tabs and the location bar shows the last URL loaded, regardless of which tab I am in.

I can click on the re-load in a tab and it puts the correct URL into the location bar and re-loads the page.

This happens, for me, on all web pages.

This does not occur on my local build of the trunk (from 20071202_202630_PST).

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I can't reproduce this.  (I tried in Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows and
Linux, and in both Firefox 2.0.0.9 and Firefox 2.0.0.11 on the Mac.)

Are you missing some steps?  Does the problem still happen with a
fresh profile?

Comment 2

[Ray Kiddy]

Urf. I see it. Then I run with a clean profile and I do not. Then I run with old profile and I see it. Then I disable all add-ons and I do not see it. Then I re-enable all add-ons (in bunches) and I do not see it. Quit and launch a few more times and I see it again. I hate this kind of thing.

I will have to get some verbose output going and see if I see anything that might tell me what the heck it is doing.

Comment 3

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

This kind of behavior is usually indicative of a thrown exception in the global window scope. Setting javascript.options.showInConsole to true using about:config, and the looking for Errors in the Error Console when it happens should help you pinpoint the faulty exception.

Comment 4

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

(In reply to comment #3)
> pinpoint the faulty exception.

Er, I meant "faulty extension", of course :)

Comment 5

[Ray Kiddy]

Thanks for the reminder. Double-checked and I do have that set. I will keep my eyes open for it.

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090119 Minefield/3.2a1pre