64959 - when a page is loading you cannot edit the location bar

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[lamp77]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010109
BuildID:    2001010901

While a page is loading, you can not edit the contents of the address bar. I
have to stop the page, and then edit the contents.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
enter a url, while it is loading try and type in a different URL

Actual Results:  uneditable

Expected Results:  editable

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

This is the case in IE5 on Windows98 too.

Since you can't load two different pages simultaneously in the same window you
*need* to push stop in order to go elsewhere. This is not a bug, but a feature
in my opinion.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

I don't see this bug in Mozilla 0109 Win98 (or in IE, for that matter).  The 
insertion point isn't very visible, though (bug 54153).

Comment 3

[Loco]

The concept I can understand, but HW's comment also makes sense.  To the 
Reporter's credit though, if you put in a URL you should be able to press <Enter> 
and simply have the browser stop the loading for you.

On the other hand, this WFM on Mac OS 01-11-04 build, and NT 01-11-04.

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Reassigning QA Contact for all open and unverified bugs previously under Lorca's
care to Gerardo as per phone conversation this morning.

Comment 5

[Madhur Bhatia]

QA contact updated

Comment 6

[luis rincon]

verified on build 2001-08-14-trunk