210021 - this document contains no data on some webpages

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Brian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

on various webpages such as personal web pages like the one in the link above or
pages like Utopia. I tend to get the message this document contains no data. I
click ok and there are no visible errors on the web page. this gets annoying so
for pages that give me this message I use explorer which does not give me any
message. I don't know why this happens but it would be nice if it did not give
me the above mentioned message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to a webpage such as that mentioned above
2.get the "this page contains no data" message and click ok.
3.error warning closses and page functions normaly



Expected Results:  
mozilla should not have given me the above message

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you use a Firewall, a proxy or do you block Ads with a host file ?

Comment 2

[Brian]

I use zonealarm for a firewall which I do not ever turn off and I use Freesurfer
MK II for add bloking but I turned it off once and continued to get the "This
Document Contains No Data" message. 

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

There is a ad-blocking function in ZA. Have you enabled this ?

If the page itself is ok if you get this warning and you enabled ad-blocking in
ZA could try this:

a) open "about:config" (as URL and without "" )
b) search browser.xul.error_pages.enabled and set it to "true"

Note: This enables error pages instead of the popup alert.
It's known that you lose the address in the URL bar and the history (back forward) 
doesn't work.

Comment 4

[Brian]

I turned zone alarm and my add blocking software compleatly off and still got
this alert. and I tried to use the steps provided above but I could not find a
browser.xul...

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You could try this : 
locate your Mozilla user-Profile, it's somewhere under c:\documents and
settings\USER\application Data\Mozilla.. (note: application Data is marked as
hidden).

You should find a file "prefs.js" in your profile. Create a user.js text-file at
the same location with this content:
pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);

Comment 6

[Brian]

How do I make a .js text file. I tried making a normal text file in that
directory with the name user.js but it didn't work

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

yes, create a normal text-file with the name "user.js" in the directory.
Be sure that you create it at the same location as the file "prefs.js".
It should work after a restart of Mozilla

Comment 8

[Brian]

I am still getting the alert and when I go into about:config I still can not
find browser.xul...

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

open "about:config" right click, select NEW, Boolean :
"broswer.xul.error_pages.enabled" (without the "") and set is to "true"

Comment 10

[Brian]

still can't find browser.xul...

Comment 11

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

If you can't find 'browser.xul.XX', just right-click and choose New.

Comment 12

[Eric de Graaf (werk)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> open "about:config" right click, select NEW, Boolean :
> "broswer.xul.error_pages.enabled" (without the "") and set is to "true"

Thanks for that tip! I think it worked for me.

Comment 13

[Maxious]

As it appears this is caused by ad blocking software, I suggest that it be
marked invalid unless anyone can present new infomation.

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040415
Firefox/0.8.0+