271806 - Alert: There was a problem retrieving the XML data: forbidden

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271641

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dennis Slater]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; ONDOWN3.2; Q312461; Cox High Speed Internet Customer; FunWebProducts-MyWay; Maxthon; (R1 1.5); .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Firefox 1.0

The alert "There was a problem retrieving the XML data: forbidden" shows up on 
some webpages.  It takes the focus and sometimes causes the webpage to change 
to another page (the one causing the problem?) if I have two or more pages in 
tabs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
This webpage: http://courses.help.com/sessions/overview.jsp?
courseSessionId=2530&userId=1197686 produces 3 alerts when I access the page.  
The current http://www.drudgereport.com/ produces only one alert.
Actual Results:  
As soon as I access http://www.drudgereport.com/ an alert pops up. 

Expected Results:  
Should not have given me an alert.

Comment 1

[Dennis Slater]

I do not get this alert in IE or Thunderbird.

Comment 2

[Milt]

--not much by way of programming, but since I went up from Firefox pre-release
.9 to the 1.0 release, I get this damned message.."There was a problem
retrieving the XML data: Forbidden." I thougt that due to yanking out Norton NIS
2004 pro, that the issue may be with it, but with KPR Firewall,issue is still
there. It's about every 20-40 seconds on intervals, & very annoying. Usually
pop-up is front row center, or infrequently it's up in top left corner. I does,
at times, reload the tab or page with the prob ontop of whatever is open.
 As commentor below observed, It happens most every page that I load, but only
with Firefox for me.  It's not with Opera or IE. I suspect it has to do with
'DOM Inspector'; like to try to recreate without it installed, but with the
upgrade to Firefox 1.0 won't allow an uninstall, only an update.

Comment 3

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271641 ***