583066 - location of previous page stays in address bar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox Graveyard :: Panorama, defect)

Description

[Robert Claypool]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0b3pre) Gecko/20100728 Minefield/4.0b3pre ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0b3pre) Gecko/20100728 Minefield/4.0b3pre ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)

Location of previous page stays in address bar and back/forward buttons don't work right. Some tabs won't close, whether right clicking and choosing close tab, hitting CTRL-W, or clicking on the "X"
This happens in safe mode as well.
Also Hotmail doesn't show the folders on the left side or an ad on the right and shows name of sender above the Subject line. Sometimes the refresh button is greyed out.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2a. Right click on a link and choose new tab and occasionally the resulting tab will not be able to close.
2b. Click on a link and the address bar and back/forward buttons do not recognize the change. Hitting backspace can return to the previous page though.


Actual Results:  
Location of previous page stays in address bar and back/forward buttons don't work right. Some tabs won't close, whether right clicking and choosing close tab, hitting CTRL-W, or clicking on the "X".


Expected Results:  
Address bar and back/forward buttons update properly. Tabs close.

At one point in time I installed from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tryserver-builds/[e-mail]-15284adb0a68/tryserver-win32/

Also I usually install to C:\mozilla\firefox but I installed another copy at C:\mozilla\firefox2 and nothing has changed.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you get this in the Firefox safemode ?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

This question is only valid for "location of previous page stays in address bar" since we require one issue/bug and the hotmail case is AFAIK a dupe and probably invalid (browser UA sniffing)

Comment 2

[Robert Claypool]

Yes it does happen in safe mode.

Comment 3

[Raymond Lee [:raymondlee]]

Could you give the latest build a try please?
http://bit.ly/ciU6xa

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

Mass moving all Tab Candy bugs from Mozilla Labs to Firefox::Tab Candy.  Filter the bugmail spam with "tabcandymassmove".

Comment 5

[Raymond Lee [:raymondlee]]

The problem doesn't exist anymore.  Please reopen it if you still see it.