239142 - When I load msnbc as my homepage, sometimes it loads, and other times I just get a blank screen.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Ostermayer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

I have www.msnbc.com as my homepage and sometimes it will load and other times I
just get a blank screen.  I never had this problem with Internet Explorer, but
now that I use FireFox, the site sometimes loads and sometimes doesn't

Thanks

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set www.msnbc.com as Firefox homepage
2. Launch Firefox
3. If the site loads perfectly, then close Firefox.
4. Reopen Firefox and see if the page loads
5. Continue this process of opening and closing Firefox, until the site does not
load.  It usually does not load 1 in ever 5 times of using Firefox.

Actual Results:  
The site should not load at least once.

Expected Results:  
It should load the site correctly every time.

I am using Noia Extreme.  This problem occurs with the regular theme.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Also seing this with: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b)
Gecko/20040328 Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Can you reproduce this problem with the Mozilla app suite? I doesn't seem like
the kind of problem that would be Firefox specific. 

Comment 3

[dlamming]

I have seen this problem as well, using the normal Mozilla suite (1.6, 1.7b)

Comment 4

[revltcoranier]

I have www.google.com as my homepage and sometimes it will load, but other times
I just get a blank screen. I never had this problem with Firefox 1.0.1 and
earlier, but now that I updated to Firefox 1.0.2, the browser sometimes loads
and sometimes doesn't. The buttons (such as back, forward, refresh, stop, home,
etc) don't work. It's like a frozen window, but I can still close it by clicking
the X in the upper right corner.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set www.google.com as Firefox homepage
2. Launch Firefox
3. If the site loads perfectly, then close Firefox.
4. Reopen Firefox and see if the page loads
5. Continue this process of opening and closing Firefox, until the site does not
load.  It usually does not load 2 in ever 5 times of using Firefox.

Comment 5

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Is this reproducable with a nightly build (http://www.mozilla.org/developer)?

Comment 6

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

WFM

Comment 7

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20050927
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005092706

WFM