601540 - Associate URL with tab

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[eviatarbach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20101002 Firefox/4.0b7pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20101002 Firefox/4.0b7pre

Often when opening a link in a new tab, the page will begin to load. However, in the location bar about:blank is displayed. If the user tries to reload while about:blank is still displayed, it will just load about:blank. The URL should immediately be transferred to the tab so that this doesn't occur.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Marat Tanalin]

For Mozilla developers: some additional description of what the bug is about:

URL should be displayed in location bar _immediately_ after opening a link, without displaying about:blank (as well as empty location bar) at all, and _irrespectively_ of is URL correct or incorrect.

See, for example, Opera 10.63 as a reference implementation.

The bug maybe depends on bug 610357.

See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610357#c34 for info about a case when current behavior is VERY annoying and harmful as for fundamental usability of the browser.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.