237481 - Browser loses ability to connect to the network

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Roman R.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040212 Firebird/0.8.0+

After some time of using FB (by that I mean having FB open), it loses its 
ability to establish network connections. Sometimes it becomes unresponsive if 
I insist on making it go to sites when it's in such a state. Thunderbird seems 
to share this problem with FB, which makes me suspect that the problem is in 
the networking module.

Closing and reopening the program (FB or TB) fixes the problem. But since I 
tend to have many tabs open, this is a very inconvenient solution.

Perhaps, the program could be made aware that it hasn't been able to establish 
a connection for an unreasonable period of time, and it could probably 
reinitialize its network component.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Worksforme with Firefox 20040425 on windows XP. Without more specific steps to
reproduce this bug isn't going anywhere.

Comment 2

[Roman R.]

This just happened with 0.9. It appeared as if it's trying to connect (the 
round thing was rotating), but nothing else was occurring. Even google.com 
wouldn't be displayed (IE could connect at the same time, by the way). I 
thought to toggle the online status twice but couldn't do it more than once 
because the program became unresponsive and had to be killed.

I had about 25 tabs open at the time it happened. And I think that instance of 
the browser survived one or more hibernations.

Comment 3

[Roman R.]

I can just repeat my previous comment. Only this time I had 29 tabs open. Could
someone create something that would allow obtaining runtime info that would help
developer fix this and other bugs?