213998 - takes a long time and doesn't find internet connection

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kiri Yowai]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

When I turn on Mozilla Firebird, it starts looking for my connection to
roadrunner. It never seems to find it, and I cannot veiw any websites other than
the homepage. when I first turned it on, I could veiw other supages of
mozilla.org, but know I can't even do that.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open Mozilla Firebird
2.wait for connection to be found
3.type in website
Actual Results:  
popup asks to redial. If i click redail, the popup closes, yet comes back up
instantly. after I did it a few more times, i clicked cancel and closed mozilla.
however, the most recent reproduction of the bug resulted in the website
appearing right as I closed the browser.

Expected Results:  
mozilla should have located my modem through my network hub and connected. when
I tried to open a website, it should have loaded instantly due to my cable modem.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Mozilla isn't supposed to control your network connection or dial up.  If you
are using a proxy of any sort you may want to hit stop, then go to
Tools->Options->Connections and make sure everything is as it should be.

Given that you stated it was working, and something no longer works, please try
a new profile and a clean install of the same build in a new directory.

I am marking this bug as WORKSFORME as this was working for you, however
something either changed or corrupted in your install, or your network
environment has changed.