446075 - Dragged/dropped URL jumps back in history.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Liam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_4; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

When a webloc is grabbed from the OS (any folder/directory) and dropped into AN EXISTING Firefox tab/view, what's loaded is a historical page NOT the dropped link. This only occurs after Firefox has been up, running, and in-use for a while.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open multiple tabs
2. so some back-and-forth browsing in these tabs
3. at some point, drag a "webloc" from, say, the desktop and drop it into an already-existing tab
Actual Results:  
what's loaded is a historical page for that tab NOT what was dropped.

Expected Results:  
it should have loaded the dropped link.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Liam: I not able to reproduce this using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1 or Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1a1pre) Gecko/2008071806 Minefield/3.1a1pre. I dragged a URL from the desktop and it loaded fine into one of my already existing tabs in both instances.

Comment 3

[Neil Deakin]

I've seen this same behaviour for links dragged from another application, in this case Thunderbird. Restarting Firefox solved the problem though.