271443 - Throbber never stops on pages with missing images

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[M.Paugh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

(Only tested on local pages (with local image links) since that way I know that
it's not a server issue.)

When I load a local page containing a missing image (that is, I specify a SRC
that doesn't exist), sometimes the page never finishes loading (throbber never
stops; progress bar at the bottom never goes away; stop button is still enabled)
as if it is busy waiting around for my hard drive to find the missing image.  :)
 This only happens sometimes; I'd estimate about 50% of the time.


Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a local HTML page with an <img src="dummy.jpg"> type link.
2. Load in Firefox.
3. If that doesn't do the trick, reload a few times until the problem occurs.
For me it seems to happen about every other time that I reload.  So: Reload, it
works; reload, throbs forever; reload, works... etc.

Actual Results:  
Page loads essentially forever (I haven't tried leaving it for a couple of hours
to see if it will really go "forever"). Stop button works.

Expected Results:  
Page should finish loading and stop. =)

Comment 1

[Bill McGonigle (not currently reading bugmail; please contact directly)]

confirming on Mac trunk - I need to reload to see the behavior.
Hardware->All, OS->All, Version->Trunk

Comment 2

[Bill McGonigle (not currently reading bugmail; please contact directly)]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 3

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050504
Firefox/1.0+