18666 - no stopping of current page when a link is clicked

Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 16484

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Jerome Hettich]

with PC 1999111108,Win NT (SP4), 288MB RAM

1. launch apprunner.
2. try to load any URL not on our LAN when our gateway to internet is NOT
connected (we have a LINUX box with modem providing IP masquerading)
3. try to load a site from a machine on our LAN OR open a file on the local
machine.

RESULT: site is not displayed, will say "document done" but not display
anything. Eventually (about 4 miniutes) will bring up a do you want to dial
under NT and once you say no it will after a minute or so bring up the loacl
page you requested. This does not happen under LINUX. Even if you click stop
then reenter URL will do same thing.

With netscape or IE if you enter a URL which isnt accessible and then enter a
new URL or local file it will stop trying to do the old one and open the new
one.

Hence off-line browsing or browsing the intranet is virtually impossible as as
soon as you click on a link off the LAN will have to wait 5 minutes or restart
apprunner.

possibly related / the same as bug #16484 ?????

Comment 1

[Jerome Hettich]

I suspect this depends on bug #8886 (also bug #8088) ?

Comment 2

[Jerome Hettich]

To replicate:
just pull out your network cable
enter a URL somewhere inaccessible
try to open a local file

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This seems to be working OK for me on Linux in the 12-02 build.  How is it on
Windows?   If it's fixed, could someone mark the bug as WORKSFORME.

Comment 4

[Michael Lowe]

Networking

Comment 5

[Gagan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16484 ***

Comment 6

[Tom Everingham]

re-assigning QA contact to myself

Comment 7

[Tom Everingham]

closing - this is a duplicate of 16484