661783 - when page fails to load reaload gives empty page and URL is lost

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 610357

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110430 Iceweasel/3.6.17 (like Firefox/3.6.17)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110430 Iceweasel/3.6.17 (like Firefox/3.6.17)

When page fails to load there may be several things that may happen:

1) the connection times out or is refused  - displays an error page
2) the server sends enough headers for Firefox to think that something arrived but not enough to mark the content as HTML - Firefox offers to save file
3) the connection does not time out nor enough headers are sent - nothing happens

in cases 2) and 3) reloading the page results in loading blank page and erasing the URL bar

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. from commandline load URL over unreliable link (or use session restore)
2. when page fails to load press Ctrl+R


Actual Results:  
blank page is loaded and URL is lost

Expected Results:  
the URL in URL bar is loaded

Comment 1

[:aceman]

I think giving URL from commandline or opening a new session amounts to loading URL in new tab, thus this should be bug 610357.
But I think this is being worked on, can you try a newer Firefox 4 and up?