260751 - Errors on other tabbed pages interrupts viewing on active tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123913

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Khaled Shivji]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Situation: When using two more more tabs, it is possible to be entering text
into one active tabbed page whilst loading other tabbed pages in the background. 

However, if an inactive tabbed page has an error like a 404 error or some
components on that page cannot be loaded, Firefox produces a pop-up box error
message. This is OK however it is very intrusive since it interrups what a user
is doing on an active tabbed page.

Subsequently, the tab with an error on it becomes the active tab, forcing the
user to OK the error message and revert back to his original page to continue
his work. 

Wouldn't it be nice if the user didn't have to respond to every Firefox error
message if it wasn't urgent?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. CTRL + T for new tab
2. CTRL + T for new tab again
3. Load one web page like www.slashdot.org in first tab - Press Enter. Wait for
page to load
4. In other tab, load up a webpage with error on it or one with 404 error
5. Try to go back to slashdot tab and see how long it takes before Firefox
interrupts your viewing to tell you the other tab had an error on it i.e. "The
page you are trying to view cannot be loaded" pop up box appears. Have to OK
this before proceeding. 



Expected Results:  
If a 404 error had occured in the other tab, the tab with the error on it should
either appear a different colour like Red allowing the user to tackle the error
notification in his own time.

Comment 1

[Dimitrios]

The ultimate solution would be fixing all dependencies of bug 28586 then
enabling error pages by default.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123913 ***