241323 - At times, Browser (and mail) become logically disconnected from LAN

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Joe Mehaffey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421

A couple of times now,  Mozilla Browser and Mail have become "logically
disconnected" from my LAN and I had to exit Mozilla and restart for it to regain
connectivity.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
lose internet connectivity until/unless exit and reload Mozilla

Comment 1

[Luis B. Almeida]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b)
Gecko/20040421
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b)
Gecko/20040421
> 
> A couple of times now,  Mozilla Browser and Mail have become "logically
> disconnected" from my LAN and I had to exit Mozilla and restart for it to regain
> connectivity.
> 
> Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.
> 2.
> 3.
> 
> Actual Results:  
> lose internet connectivity until/unless exit and reload Mozilla

This same behavior happens to me quite often. After using Mozilla's browser
and/or mail, they can't communicate with the network any more. However, other
applications (e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer) can communicate normally.
Closing and re-opening Mozilla (all windows, including browser and mail ones)
solves the problem. This has happened in several versions of Mozilla, sinceit
moved from 1.7 to 1.8.x.

Lately I met an even worse behavior, that I found only in version 1.8b: After
using the browser for a little while, all tabs start to load only a small part
of the respective page and then become hung, with the arrows rotating
permanently. Opening a different page in a new tab unhangs them for a short
while, allowing them to load the whole respective page. But if you try to open a
new opage in them, they become hung again. Closing all Mozilla windows and
re-starting Mozilla did not solve the problem. This makes the browser virtually
unusable.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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