486217 - Entering & exiting private-browsing fails to restore all https://bugzilla.mozilla.org tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 463256

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
 1. Load https://bugzilla.mozilla.org (or any bug page on bugzilla)
 2. Ctrl-Shift-P to enter Private Browsing Mode (& click through the dialog)
 3. Ctrl-Shift-P to exit Private Browsing Mode

EXPECTED RESULTS:
 My original tab should be restored to show bugzilla

ACTUAL RESULTS:
 That tab shows https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ in the URL bar, but the content area is just a blank gray page with "(Untitled)" in the title. (The same happens to any other tabs that used to be viewing bugzilla pages.)

EXPERIMENTS AFTER HITTING BUG:
 (A) If I focus the location bar (which contains https://bugzilla.mozilla.org) and press enter, the gray tab doesn't change
 (B) If I switch tabs, or open a new tab, and attempt to load any https bugzilla URL there, the page contents don't actually change.


NOTE: After a short period of time (between a few seconds and a minute), it will starts working again, though. (Experiments "A" and "B" will start to load actual bugzilla pages)

NOTE: I've tried this on another SSL page -- https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/ -- and I couldn't reproduce the bug there.  So, this seems to be something specific to bugzilla -- it's not an issue with all HTTPS sites.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

I see this bug in my Shiretoko and mozilla-central nightlies.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090331 Shiretoko/3.5b4pre
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090331 Minefield/3.6a1pre

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Daniel: Please see Bug 463256 - I think this is essentially what you are seeing.

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screencast of bug

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Yeah, sounds like it, based on bug 463256 comment 5.  Thanks Marcia!