49675 - Blank entries in Go/History for pages without title

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000810
BuildID:    2000081017

If a document has no <title>, its history entry in the
Go menu is blank.  That makes it a bit hart to select.
It's also confusing if I want to go e.g. 2 documents
back but don't notice that there is a blank history
entry in the middle, so I go 3 elements back instead.

(It's also blank in Tasks/History, but that's less
important since the filename is visible next to it.)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the specified URL (or some other without title).
2. Click on the Go button.
3. Click on Tasks/History and sort by last visited.

Actual Results:  Blank history titles

Expected Results:  Some component of the URL (the algorithm to
pick it doesn't need to be advanced).

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

I'm sure law's latest checkin fixed this.  If not, I will.

Comment 2

[Claudius Gayle]

I'm mostly sure this is a dupe of bug 22174 (the bug law was checking in a fix for)

Comment 3

[timeless]

Mozilla built today from cvs tip on solaris8intel
Go history displays the url :-)
The window title is useless and therefore the tasks entry is useless, but that's
for an enhancement bug (the url should be displayed in both places).

Comment 4

[Claudius Gayle]

what are you trying to say? Your last comment doesn't seem to make sense (we display the url but we should use the url?).

AND, this is just a dupe of bug 22174, say why it isn't.

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

Well, I'm not actually sure that it's an exact dup because that bug dealt with 
FTP and local file entries in SH, whereas this bug is just *any* html page that 
has a blank title (<TITLE></TITLE>).  However, since Law fixed 22174 by 
checking to see if the title was empty and then using the URL if it was, that 
also fixed this bug.

I, too, am confused by timeless's comment though.

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying claudius' Fixed bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

if you think this particular bug is not fixed, please make sure of the following
before reopening:

a. retest with a *recent* trunk build.
b. query bugzilla to see if there's an existing, open bug (new, reopened,
assigned) that covers your issue.
c. if this does need to be reopened, make sure there are specific steps to
reproduce (unless already provided and up-to-date).

thanks!

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