460356 - Command+Reload or Ctrl+Reload launches a new tab instead of refreshing

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Seen while testing Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081016 Minefield/3.1b2pre.

STR:
1. With several tabs open, focus on one tab.
2. Hold the command key down and select the "Reload current page" icon in the toolbar.

Expected: Firefox would reload the page, as it does in Firefox 3.0.3
Actual: Firefox launches a new instance of the tab

Perhaps this is intentional, but just wanted to be sure.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

I think it was intentional (bug 263942).

Comment 2

[DavidC]

Same problem in Windows / 3.1b2.

Comment 5

[John P Baker]

This appears to be intentional from bug 263942

Comment 7

[Jeremy Vanderburg]

This may well be intentional as indicated by comments 1 and 6, however the ability to reload a page bypassing the cache (Previously by hitting CTRL+Reload) no longer functions as expected.  When developing web applications, Firefox does not always reload the page properly when small changes are made, therefore an option to bypass the cache is needed.  Deleting the cache every time you need to do this is not an acceptable option in these cases.

Comment 8

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> applications, Firefox does not always reload the page properly when small
> changes are made, therefore an option to bypass the cache is needed.  Deleting
> the cache every time you need to do this is not an acceptable option in these
> cases.

In case it helps, my understanding is that Shift-Reload will force a reload (bypassing the cache) in Firefox. 
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/netlib/cachefaq.html

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

And you can always use the keyboard-only shortcut for force reload, Cmd+Shift+R.

Comment 11

[Damien]

For me it's not a problem ...

Comment 12

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 4 duplicates.
:dao, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Comment 13

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.