266688 - After 12 hours running or more browser is not able to resolve hosts or connect to them. After restart all works normally.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 224580

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Yuriy]

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

My PC at work may work for months without restart. So, when I leave Firefox for
12  or more hours (for night) and come next day, it frequently (~70-80% cases)
can't resolve hosts or connect to them. I have to close the browser and open it
again. After this everything works normally. This bug is present in all versions
of Firefox 0.9x and later. Also present in Mozilla 1.5-1.7. IE does not
experience such a bug.
My PC is in corporate newtwork behind firewall and I have Microsoft Firewall
Client installed.

It seems that browser does not handle some kind of timeout during network
communication or have some other network related problem.



Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start browsing open bunch of hosts (www.ft.com; www.bbc.co.uk; www.cnn.com;
www.bloomberg.com; etc.) 
2. Leave browser for night
3. In the morning you'll find that browser can't resolve hosts and for already
resolved hosts it is not able to connect to.

Actual Results:  
Hosts can't be resolved or connected.

Expected Results:  
normally resolv hosts, connect to them, download page and display it

Comment 1

[Robin Monks]

Duping to similar bug in browser componet bug 224580.  Reporter, if you feel
this was done in error, please REOPEN.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 224580 ***