Open Bug 1187787 Opened 10 years ago Updated 3 years ago

"No buffer space available" error not handled correctly

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect, P5)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Version:
39 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: hyperchinois15, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [necko-would-take])

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0 Build ID: 20150630154324 Steps to reproduce: Story: I am running Windows 7 and I have a buggy driver. It probably forgets to closes connections. After a while, some system limit is hit. Many others apps give me the error "No buffer space available" when I try to initiate a new connection at that time. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: -starve network resources. -open an url Actual results: When opening a new URL in an existing tab, it will also turn into the blank tab. Expected results: Firefox should display an appropriate error dialog. Bug related: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254272
Typo in the description. In actual results, remove 'also'.
See Also: → 254272
Component: Untriaged → Networking
Product: Firefox → Core
Whiteboard: [necko-would-take]
Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258
Priority: -- → P5
Severity: normal → S3
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