272697 - Unable to visit yahoo after installing lavasoft Ad-Watch SE plus

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Alberto J. Rodriguez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041116 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041116 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b

After instaling Lavasoft Ad-Watch SE Plus, the browser start loading the page ,
but finnally nothing is shown; the view page-info shows a size of 0Kb, no page
loaded. Since this could be a preferences problem, I tried Firefox 1.0 and the
same problem resulted, so it could be a preference problem. With Microsoft IE
6.0, the page display with no problem. Up to now, no other web page has
presented the same behaviour.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install the package from Lavasoft
2.Perform a scan in your system
3.Try to open yahoo.com
4. The site is not displayed ( same in Firefox )
5. The site could be seen in MS IE

Actual Results:  
Unable to visit yahoo.com 

Expected Results:  
Open yahoo.com

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

This is hardly a view source issue.

Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Cache and clear your cache.

It might be that somehow the yahoo cache entry is corrupt.

Comment 2

[Alberto J. Rodriguez]

First, the clear cache in Edit, preference,advanced is not working. I had to go
to Windows/Application data/Mozilla/Profiles/xxx/yyy/cache to erase all cache
content.
When I tried to load yahoo.com after I did the above mentioned operation, the
situation remains : No page is loaded.

Comment 3

[Alberto J. Rodriguez]

I apologize for my last comment: In windows XP, the profile is in "Documents and
settings", and I look at an old version where it was before I switched to XP.
Clear cookies works as it should be. After clearing cookies and TEMP files, the
problem holds. No display of yahoo.com

Comment 4

[Alberto J. Rodriguez]

I was using version 20041116 , and downloaded version 20041206 which I am running.
With this version, the problem desapeared.
Lavasoft Adware SE is working fine.
Just to tell the leaders this situation.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Marking worksforme per comment 4...  Please reopen if the problem reappears in
current builds.

Comment 6

[Alberto J. Rodriguez]

This bug remains with the latest version Mozilla 1.7.5 , Gecko/20041217.
After typing the URL of any Yahoo pages ( main, photos, mail...), the browser
shows a loading activity, but ends with a done message, and nothing in the screen...

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Alberto, a current build would be 1.8a5 or the upcoming 1.8a6.  The 1.7.5
version is using a 9-month-old core (and the Gecko build date for it is a
bald-faced lie for purposes of telling what engine it's using).

Could you please test a current trunk build?

Comment 8

[Alberto J. Rodriguez]

Downloaded Moz 1.8a6 , 2005011006 , and the behaviour is the same : Yahoo is not
displayed.
I´ll keep using 1.7.5 because the multizilla plug in does not  work in 1.8.