253632 - Cancelling proxy logon fails to cancel - only after about 3-5 cancels

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[steve herfst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.8

When logging onto the internet via a proxy, cancelling the logon credentials
prompt fails to cancel the attempt to log on.  

Only after 3-5 cancels does the browser finally cancel attempting to log on.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Configure browser to run through an internet proxy
2.  Start Browser
3.  (Attempt to) cancel load process by cancelling log on credential prompt

Actual Results:  
The load process only cancelled after 3-5 cancelled log on credential prompts

Expected Results:  
The load process should cancel after the first cancel attempt

Comment 1

[Andy Vermaak]

I have the same problem but I find that I have cannot canel no matter how many
times I click it. I have to go to the task manager and remove firefox completely
and restart. We have a number of different proxy servers so this creates quite a
problem.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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