253122 - Dialup collides with Thunderbird dialup and produces error message and aborts connection to URL

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Doug Hockin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

If Firefox attempts to connect to ISP while Thunderbird is doing dialup, then
Firefox puts up error dialog and after user response, aborts the attempt to
connect to URL.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird and get it dialing up to ISP.
2. Start Firefox, key in URL and hit return.
3.

Actual Results:  
Fire fox puts up message:

Cannot connect the phonebook entry.
Error 756: This connection is already being dialed.

OK



Expected Results:  
Firefox should just wait till the dialup is done and then connect to the URL.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 253124 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Doug Hockin]

Still happens in Thunderbird 1.5b1.

Comment 4

[Doug Hockin]

If this problem exists any more I don't care. I long ago quit letting FF or TB dialup my internet connection. Either there's a bug in FF and TB, or more likely a bug in Windows that causes FF or TB to start using the connection before it's really ready for use. I would guess that Windows returns from the connection open request before it's really usable. This means FF or TB get an error when they attempt to use the connection they initiated themselves.

So I always open the connection manually and listen (modem sound) for it to be complete before starting FF or TB, and then when they want it it's always ready to go.

So...close this.