231472 - browser (and windows) hangs if a dialup connection drops while loading a page

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Tom Maneiro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; es-ES; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; es-ES; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

I am a dial-up user, and i've noticed in Mozilla 1.6b that if i am loading a
page, and then i lost my connection, browser freezes, And, worse even, Windows
freeses, so i need to reboot my PC. I've noticed this fail at least three times.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run Browser with a dial-up connection
2.Load a page, then wait until the modem lost the connection while loading page
(this may take a looooong while...)

Actual Results:  
Browser and Windows freezes, forcing a hard reboot. Also some cache contents may
be lost.

Expected Results:  
Simply display an error message.

I'm using Windows ME (Spanish), Mozilla 1.6b, latest Spanish translation,
ChatZilla 0.9.56, Calendar 20030926, and for some strange reason, Talkback does
not work (i've installed it).

Comment 1

[Tom Maneiro]

wow!i posted this 8 months ago and still no answer!
It still happens, if anyone is interested.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 280545 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

is there a short time between "lost my connection" and "browser freezes" ?
Is there a differenece if you open "about:config" (as URL), enter "audodial" and
change the option "network.autodial-helper.enabled" to "false" ?

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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