633070 - Clicking on bit.ly link to PDF does not show moved location in location bar

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

I clicked on a link that Chris Blizzard tweeted:

http://bit.ly/e8WE4r

It opened up a PDF in preview.app... and then I looked back and saw that the location bar still said http://bit.ly/e8WE4r

rather than the 301'd location:
http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Public/48TrainScheduleDRAFT_02-09-2011.pdf

Here's some about:support:



  Application Basics

        Name
        Firefox

        Version
        4.0b11

        User Agent
        Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b11) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b11

        Profile Directory

          Show in Finder

        Enabled Plugins

          about:plugins

        Build Configuration

          about:buildconfig

  Extensions

        Name

        Version

        Enabled

        ID

        Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS X
        1.1.3
        false
        [e-mail]

        Scriptish
        0.1b2
        false
        [e-mail]

        Add-on Compatibility Reporter
        0.7
        false
        [e-mail]

        Bugzilla Tweaks
        1.6
        false
        jid0-qBnIpLfDFa4LpdrjhAC6vBqN20Q@jetpack

        Copy ShortURL
        1.3
        false
        jid0-ODIKJS9b4IT3H1NYlPKr0NDtLuE@jetpack

        The Tracktor - Amazon Price Tracker
        1.0.4
        false
        [e-mail]

        Google Gears
        0.5.36.0
        false
        {000a9d1c-beef-4f90-9363-039d445309b8}

        F1 by Mozilla Labs
        0.7.3
        false
        [e-mail]

        YSlow
        2.1.0
        false
        [e-mail]

        Web Developer
        1.1.9
        false
        {c45c406e-ab73-11d8-be73-000a95be3b12}

        Add-on Builder Helper
        0.0.18
        false
        jid0-t3eeRQgGANLCH9c50lPqcTDuNng@jetpack

        Firebug
        1.7X.0a9
        false
        [e-mail]

        Greasemonkey
        0.9.1
        false
        {e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}

        User Agent Switcher
        0.7.3
        false
        {e968fc70-8f95-4ab9-9e79-304de2a71ee1}

        Feedback
        1.0.4
        false
        [e-mail]

        JSONView
        0.5
        false
        [e-mail]

        Adblock Plus
        1.3.3
        false
        {d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}

  Modified Preferences

      Name

      Value

        accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar
        0

        browser.places.importBookmarksHTML
        false

        browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
        2

        browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID
        20110203140743

        browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
        rv:2.0b11

        dom.disable_window_move_resize
        true

        extensions.checkCompatibility
        false

        extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6
        false

        extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6b
        false

        extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6p
        false

        extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6pre
        false

        extensions.checkCompatibility.3.7a
        false

        extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0b
        false

        extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0p
        false

        extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0pre
        false

        extensions.lastAppVersion
        4.0b11

        network.cookie.prefsMigrated
        true

        places.database.lastMaintenance
        1297195915

        places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages
        120795

        print.macosx.pagesetup-2
        PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4KPCFET0NUWVBFIHBsaXN0IFBVQkxJQyAiLS8vQXBwbGUvL0RURCBQTElTVCAxLjAvL0VO…

        print.print_bgcolor
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        print.print_bgimages
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        print.print_command

        print.print_downloadfonts
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        print.print_evenpages
        true

        print.print_in_color
        true

        print.print_margin_bottom
        0.5

        print.print_margin_left
        0.5

        print.print_margin_right
        0.5

        print.print_margin_top
        0.5

        print.print_oddpages
        true

        print.print_orientation
        0

        print.print_page_delay
        50

        print.print_paper_data
        0

        print.print_paper_height
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        print.print_paper_size_type
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        print.print_paper_size_unit
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        print.print_paper_width
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        print.print_printer

        print.print_reversed
        false

        print.print_scaling
        1.00

        print.print_shrink_to_fit
        true

        print.print_to_file
        false

        print.print_unwriteable_margin_bottom
        56

        print.print_unwriteable_margin_left
        25

        print.print_unwriteable_margin_right
        25

        print.print_unwriteable_margin_top
        25

        privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
        true

        privacy.sanitize.timeSpan
        4

        security.enable_java
        true

        security.warn_viewing_mixed
        false

  Graphics

        Adapter Description
        0x22600,0x20400

        Vendor ID
        0000

        Device ID
        0000

        Adapter RAM

        Adapter Drivers

        Driver Version

        Driver Date

        Direct2D Enabled
        false

        DirectWrite Enabled
        false

        WebGL Renderer
        NVIDIA Corporation -- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M OpenGL Engine -- 2.1 NVIDIA-1.6.26

        GPU Accelerated Windows
        2/2 OpenGL

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Can't reproduce here with Firefox 4 on Windows.

Dunno if the Copy ShortURL add-on could be related, even if it seems not, could you try disabling the add-on?

Comment 2

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can't reproduce here with Firefox 4 on Windows.
> 
> Dunno if the Copy ShortURL add-on could be related, even if it seems not, could
> you try disabling the add-on?

That did not change the outcome.

I have all add-ons except about:me disabled and I apple-clicked the link and I got a prompt to download the pdf, went to the new tab and it had the bit.ly url still.

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I can confirm this behavior on a new RC1 profile that I used sync to get my bookmarks etc. into. I right-click the bit.ly link in comment 0 -> Open in new Tab. The download link appears, I cancel. In the new tab, the URL bar shows the bit.ly link, not the 301ed location.

FWIW, my Copy ShortURL add-on does not interfere with any existing URLs, and the behavior is reproducible both with it disabled and enabled.

Comment 4

[Matt Brandt [:mbrandt]]

(In reply to comment #0)
FWIW I'm experiencing the same behavior as Dave... admittedly it's in a Window's 7 VM running on OSX with a fresh install of Firefox 4.0RC.

When pointed to the url (http://bit.ly/e8WE4r) I see the download dialogue. After downloading the pdf the location bar doesn't update to http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Public/48TrainScheduleDRAFT_02-09-2011.pdf

about:support:
http://mbrandt.pastebin.mozilla.org/1169858

Comment 5

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Confirming that this is present on Fx11 with very few add-ons.

I am using this as the test URL: http://1.usa.gov/aAqpWr

Comment 6

[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.