User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 Build ID: 20140911151253 Steps to reproduce: * Type a partial URL (in my particular case, 'collo', which if I'd done things right would have gotten me a colloquia site I wanted to revisit). * Hit <return> without picking the site from the drop-down list. * Realize my error, press <escape> to stop the bogus load. * ^L to get back into the title bar. * Type that same partial URL, then pick the desired URL. * Hit <return>. Actual results: The desired site loaded, and then a few seconds later was replaced with the standard Firefox error page ("Firefox can't find the server at www.collo.com.") I'd expect for the nonexistent site www.collo.com. Expected results: The desired site loads, and is not replaced with an error page. I've also done this with a partial URL that went to a live site; in that case, it'll give me the live site instead. It looks like what's going on is that the first attempt isn't really stopping with <escape>, even though it looks like it has stopped.

I had the thought to try it another way. I ran my first three steps to reproduce (through "Realize my error, press <escape> to stop the bogus load."), and then just waited. After a few seconds, I got the first page of Google search results for 'collo'. This is also unexpected behavior; what I'd expect is that the page sits and loads nothing until I tell it something new to visit.

This is pretty similar to bug 1017595, but I don't know if it's the same issue... marking see also for now.

(In reply to :Gijs Kruitbosch from comment #2) > This is pretty similar to bug 1017595, but I don't know if it's the same > issue... marking see also for now. Egh, copy-paste fail - meant bug 998606.