411026 - Location bar titles don't get updated on redirects

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2

I'm in the UK, so when I enter http://www.youtube.com/ I get redirected to http://uk.youtube.com ; some time ago (possibly before youtube started doing the redirects?) I got a 500 Internal Server Error from http://www.youtube.com/

Unfortunately my location bar has remembered this in the title it shows you in the pick list of matching URLs.  This doesn't get updated when I go to the page again.

After a discussion on #firefox it isn't clear what the right behaviour here should be; what title should you pick up after a redirect?

From my point of view holding the old error title is certainly wrong; and I think from the point of view of users who don't realise there is a redirect in there, they won't understand why the behaviour is any different.

Redirects seem especially common for international sites for large companies who use local servers.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a website that uses a redirect, go to it when it is broken and gives you an error from the top level site.
2. Go back when it is working
3. See error still in location bar

Comment 1

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Bulk closing all UNCONFIRMED bugs dealing with places that haven't had any bug activity in over 120 days, have no votes, and are not enhancement requests.

If you are still experiencing this issue in Firefox 3.0 or later, please re-open the bug with steps to reproduce (if they were not part of the original comment).