Closed Bug 136889 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

If an image cannot be download, a message should not be popped up

Categories

(Core :: Graphics: Image Blocking, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 28586

People

(Reporter: aaronclawrence, Assigned: morse)

References

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)
BuildID:    2002031903

If an image cannot be downloaded, because the host does not accept the 
connection or is not found, then Mozilla pops up a message saying 
e.g. "Connection was refused".

As an example, I have some ad sites blocked by listing them in my hosts file as 
127.0.0.1 For every image, Mozilla pops up an error.

In contrast, IE just displays an error in place of the image.

Netscape 4.78 also does not display a popup, it just leaves the space blank.

Perhaps, all the error dialogs should be scrapped, in favour of error pages 
like IE. I find the popup dialogs quite jarring, because they look and behave 
completely different. You can't just click back. You can't copy and paste. 


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Enter an image site into your hosts list so that it is redirected to 127.0.0.1 
(localhost) or otherwise find a broken image link (even just browsing a local 
page with no internet connection)

Actual Results:  Popup dialog saying error

Expected Results:  An error text that appears in place of the image

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28586 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
QA Contact: tever → nobody
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