124145 - blocked/unreachable hosts trigger annoying popup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 28586

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Eyal Lior]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020406

I'm using windows hosts file to block banners. Using IE, I just get an empty
(white usually) box, sometimes with error message in case of SSI.

With mozilla I get a popup alert for every blocked image on the page. Drop the
popup alerts.
Same for unreachable hosts, better show an error page (without removing the text
in the url bar).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.just try surfing to www.nosuchwebsitefdkjfdklfj.com
2.do it now with IE and watch how less annoying it is.
3.

Actual Results:  Popup for each failing connection

Expected Results:  Error page

I've set Severity to 'normal' because it's really annoying.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

dup of 28586 "[RFE] Should use error page, not dialog, for inaccessible pages
(placeholder)"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28586 ***