268271 - At random times, certain pages never finish loading, even when Mozilla and IE have no problem

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Barnes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Sometimes (more and more often lately) when I try to load a page (examples: 
http://login.postini.com  and  http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-
guidelines.html) the page never finished loading.  The progress bar stops 
moving before reaching the end, the word "Loading..." remains on the tab, and 
the logo keeps spinning, on both the tab and the main window.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter the URL and press the <enter> key
-or-
2.Paste the URL and click the GO button
-or-
3.Paste the URL with "Paste & GO"

I've reproduces with the following URLs:

http://login.postini.com

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html


Actual Results:  
The page never finishes loading.  The progress bar stops moving before 
reaching the end, the word "Loading..." remains on the tab, and the logo keeps 
spinning, on both the tab and the main window.

(And if you quit the window the process remains forever!!!  But that's another 
bug alread in the database.)

5...10....15 qand more minutes later, they're still going.


Expected Results:  
The page loads and displays and the progress bar clears and the spinning logos 
quit spinning and the status text "Loading..." disappears.

Comment 1

[mattd]

I and at least one other friend of mine has had this exact same problem.  

The page will never load. It's like it's getting a bad socket and the socket
never reads properly, because if you hit reload, often, not always, the page
will load properly.  If you bring up another browser such as IE, the page will
load correctly right away.

I'm annoyed by this but live with it.  My friend is frustrated enough by it that
he's contemplating moving back to IE.

This happens on Windows 2000, and Linux as well as XP.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 4

[mmortal03]

This bug is still present, or is a new regression, in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a2) Gecko/20060510 BonEcho/2.0a2.  After having the browser open for a long period of time, at random times, certain tabs will stop loading, and you must restart the browser.  The urls work fine in IE, however, at the same time they aren't in Firefox.