Closed Bug 1591237 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Provide more specific error messages that allow basic diagnosis, e.g. "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED"

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(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

ARM
Android
enhancement
Not set
normal

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

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(Reporter: web, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.122 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/2.3.1440.61

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to load a website.

Actual results:

I got a message like "connection failed".

Expected results:

Instead of showing just a timeout, Firefox should provide more details.
E.g. Chrome said "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED" which was an useful information since the WiFi provider seems to have blocked some sites.

This is how Chrome did it.

Summary: provide useful error messages → Provide more specific error messages that allow basic diagnosis, e.g. "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED"
OS: Unspecified → Android
Hardware: Unspecified → ARM
Version: Firefox 68 → Trunk

We won't change this in Fennec. But this situation is much improved in Firefox Preview (Fenix) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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