225723 - Net timeout error while connecting to login.yahoo.com - works with IE

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sean Kent]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031114 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031114 Firebird/0.7+

I use http://my.yahoo.com as my homepage.  In today's build, attempting to login
causes a Net Timeout Error no matter which login I try to use.  I have attempted
to login all day with no results.  At any time, using IE to login works with no
timeout issues.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://my.yahoo.com
2.Attempt to login
3.Wait for timeout

Actual Results:  
Net Timeout Error

Expected Results:  
Connected/login to yahoo

Confirmed by Neil Parks:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=34973

Comment 1

[Phil Randal]

I've just tried it and it works for me.

Comment 2

[Gennady Feldman]

I've seen this too, even with earlier builds. At times FB times out when
connecting to mail.yahoo.com server, when I hit cancel and click again it
connects  and works fine. I also seen it randomly timeout on other sites, which
could then be reloaded fine. It tends to happen when I open a folder with
bookmarks, where it needs to load like ~8 sites in tabs. 

Comment 3

[Sean Kent]

And of course, now it works fine.  It wouldn't work for at least 3 hours, now no
problems at all.  I think this was more a Yahoo issue and not Firebird.

Comment 4

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

Re, Comment #3
Exactly, yahoo servers have shown in the past that they have some issues.