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Is it possible to force Firefox to load a url in a tab when opening a new page (before the page has loaded)?

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Recently when using a rather unreliable internet connection I'm often get dropped connections that prevent pages from loading.

In the past this used to result in an "Unable to connect to server page" when the timeout happened, which was fine as I could just refresh the page.

These days however the page is timing out when the page is still on the about:blank stage (or stuck on the current page), before the url has been updated, so I'm losing the address.

Is there any way to force firefox to update the url as soon as the page load request is made, as opposed to when it recieves a response from the server (which is how it seems to work at the moment)?

Recently when using a rather unreliable internet connection I'm often get dropped connections that prevent pages from loading. In the past this used to result in an "Unable to connect to server page" when the timeout happened, which was fine as I could just refresh the page. These days however the page is timing out when the page is still on the about:blank stage (or stuck on the current page), before the url has been updated, so I'm losing the address. Is there any way to force firefox to update the url as soon as the page load request is made, as opposed to when it recieves a response from the server (which is how it seems to work at the moment)?

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If you click a link then Firefox may only be showing the URL on the location bar if at least there is a connection to the server.

If you are on Linux then it should take minutes before the connection times out, at least that is what I see (on Windows it is only 20 seconds). This might be different in case the connection drops.

There should be a try again button of the net error page to reload this link.

Don't you see such a button?

You can start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.