120179 - Browser unable to load page, "unknown socket type"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 47617

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Abajian]

Although this behavior is reproducible on many sites, both at home and at
work, here's one consistent example:

My bank's website is inaccessible with Mozilla.  Old copies of Navigator work
fine.  in 0.9.6 when I went to the bank site and clicked on the button for
"PC Branch Entrance" nothing would happen.  It would return "done" immeditately
and leave me on the same page.  Now (0.9.7) it gives me an error dialog box
saying "Unknown socket type.  Loading aborted."

I guess this is an improvement, but it'a a major problem for me.  A large 
number of form buttons will not work.

Comment 1

[Chris Abajian]

hmm, in case I didn't use this form correctly (sorry) the (a) URL
that illustrates the failure is http://ghcu.org/

This bug is reproducible in 0.9.7 release, using the red hat RPM version

Comment 2

[Olav Vitters]

install PSM (this is the mozilla-psm rpm), this is required for https sites.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47617 ***

Comment 3

[timeless]

vrfy dupe

Comment 4

[Chris Abajian]

Installing psm fixed it.

This was my first exposure to the Moz bug process.  Freakin awesome.
The response came in what, a few hours?  and was correct.

25 years a Software Engineer and I'm jealous.  You people rock.  I wish I
could afford the time to work on this project (mortgage, kid, "real job"
blah blah blah).  Hope my duplicate bug didn't slow anything down, at least.