270747 - Connection Issues to be addressed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Conn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

With a PPOE DSL line, if you open Firefox without a connection, it will never
work until you close Firefox ,connect, AND THEN reopen. I heard same thing
happens on PPOE DSL connection when connection is dropped as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open FIREFOX before connecting to internet
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Couldnt browse without closing Firefox and restarting it.

Expected Results:  
shouldnt have to restart firefox

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Is this problem only seen with firefox? It seems unlikely to me that firefox
would behave any differently than any other application. I frequently have my
connection cut out, and I've never had a problem with firefox not finding the
connection.

Comment 2

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

-> no reply

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050416 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;
en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Resolved as WFM

Reporter, If you can reproduce your reported Error in the latest
milestone or a recent (no more than 3 days old) nightly build, then feel free to
re-open.